{"id":16577,"date":"2017-05-31T10:41:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=16577"},"modified":"2026-02-05T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:20:27","slug":"science-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=16577","title":{"rendered":"Science March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending more than a month trying to get MuseBlog&#8217;s slideshow app to work, I&#8217;ve given up and decided just to post the pictures I took at the Science March. Here are some to start with; captions and more photos will follow later.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I marched with a throng of paleontologists:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_paleo-marchers_1.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, paleontology contingent\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_paleo-marchers_2.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, paleontology contingent\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other marches may have been bigger or slicker than the March for Science, but the scientists had the best hats. Good costumes, too:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_hats_1.jpg\" alt=\"Science march, hats\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_hats_2.jpg\" alt=\"Science march, hats\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_hats_3.jpg\" alt=\"Science march, hats\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We mustered on the Washington Monument grounds and then marched down Constitution Avenue toward the Capitol amid intermittent rain:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_ConstitutionAve_1.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, marching down Constitution Avenue\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_ConstitutionAve_2.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, marching down Constitution Avenue\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_ConstitutionAve_3.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, marching down Constitution Avenue\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_ConstitutionAve_4.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, marching down Constitution Avenue\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_ConstitutionAve_5.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, marching down Constitution Avenue\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_ConstitutionAve_6.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, marching down Constitution Avenue\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_ConstitutionAve_7.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, marching down Constitution Avenue\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of the signs were homemade, and not all of them were equally water-repellent. Some of my favorites:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_1.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_2.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_3.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_4.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_5.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_6.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_7.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_8.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_9.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_10.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_11.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_12.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_13.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_14.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_15.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_signs_17.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, catchy signs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the obligatory steely-jawed selfie:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScienceMarch2017_selfie_2.jpg\" alt=\"Science March, Robert\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending more than a month trying to get MuseBlog&#8217;s slideshow app to work, I&#8217;ve given up and decided just to post the pictures I took at the Science March. Here are some to start with; captions and more photos will follow later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe","category-things-we-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16577"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17139,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577\/revisions\/17139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}