{"id":3689,"date":"2016-04-21T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2016-04-21T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T17:14:10","slug":"the-case-for-grace-hopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3689","title":{"rendered":"The case for Grace Hopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/a3.files.biography.com\/image\/upload\/c_fit,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,h_1200,q_80,w_1200\/MTE5NTU2MzE2NjYxNTE1Nzg3.jpg\" width=200 class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin:10px;\">I don&#8217;t have a particular problem with Harriet Tubman, but I don&#8217;t think she is the best choice the Treasury could have made if it wanted to put a woman on our currency.<\/p>\n<p>If it had been left up to me, the woman on our $20 bill would be Admiral Grace Hopper.  She was a distinguished military officer, a founder of America&#8217;s pre-eminence in computer science, and is a reasonably contemporary example toward whom young women can aspire &#8212; at a time when America needs desperately to focus on STEM education.  Hopper would have been, by a bunch, a more forward-looking choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have a particular problem with Harriet Tubman, but I don&#8217;t think she is the best choice the Treasury could have made if it wanted to put a woman on our currency. If it had been left up to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}