{"id":77548,"date":"2018-04-07T06:15:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T13:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/only-two-thirds-of-american-millennials-believe-the-earth-is-round"},"modified":"2018-04-07T06:15:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T13:15:42","slug":"only-two-thirds-of-american-millennials-believe-the-earth-is-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/only-two-thirds-of-american-millennials-believe-the-earth-is-round","title":{"rendered":"Only Two-Thirds Of American Millennials Believe The Earth Is Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/only-two-thirds-of-american-millennials-believe-the-earth-is-round.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kids these days\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Millennials in America sometimes get a bad reputation, this time for good reason. A recent survey found that just 66 percent of young adults aged 18 to 24 years old have \u201calways believed the world is round.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/news\/2018\/04\/02\/most-flat-earthers-consider-themselves-religious\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/news\/2018\/04\/02\/most-flat-earthers-consider-themselves-religious\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">YouGov polled 8,215 US adults<\/a> on February 8th, 2018 to get a representative idea of America\u2019s views on the shape of the Earth. What they found would make any scientist shake their heads, a surprising percentage of responders weren\u2019t convinced the Earth is round.<\/p>\n<p>The question asked individuals to categorize their thoughts surrounding the shape of the Earth into one of the five buckets below:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/on.forbes.com\/6187DkJjN\">http:\/\/on.forbes.com\/6187DkJjN<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids these days\u2026 Millennials in America sometimes get a bad reputation, this time for good reason. A recent survey found that just 66 percent of young adults aged 18 to 24 years old have \u201calways believed the world is round.\u201d YouGov polled 8,215 US adults on February 8th, 2018 to get a representative idea of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}