{"id":966,"date":"2006-06-01T05:03:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T09:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=966"},"modified":"2014-03-08T05:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T09:03:23","slug":"its-a-protist-not-a-plant-hops-indignant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/966\/its-a-protist-not-a-plant-hops-indignant\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;It&#8217;s a protist, not a plant!&quot; (H.o.p.&#8217;s indignant)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H.o.p. is furious.<\/p>\n<p>It has become a major source of contention for H.o.p. that so many children&#8217;s PBS shows and computer learning programs refer to algae as a plant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Algae is not a plant, it&#8217;s a protist!&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a Big Big World&#8221; called algae a plant.<\/p>\n<p>H.o.p. yelled, &#8220;Algae is not a plant, it&#8217;s a protist!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Barney&#8221; called algae a plant.<\/p>\n<p>H.o.p. yelled, &#8220;Algae is not a plant, it&#8217;s a protist!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he yells anyway when Barney comes on.  &#8220;Aaagh!  Barney!  I hate Barney!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Time 4 Learning&#8221; called algae a plant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Algae is not a plant, it&#8217;s a protist!&#8221; said H.o.p.<\/p>\n<p>But not Brainpop. Brainpop correctly gets it right that algae is a protist.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, H.o.p. is writing Time 4 Learning to let them know that they are all wrong about algae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.o.p. is furious. It has become a major source of contention for H.o.p. that so many children&#8217;s PBS shows and computer learning programs refer to algae as a plant. &#8220;Algae is not a plant, it&#8217;s a protist!&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s a Big Big World&#8221; called algae a plant. H.o.p. yelled, &#8220;Algae is not a plant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[424,422],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-a","tag-homeschool-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}