{"id":43019,"date":"2011-08-06T20:29:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T04:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13447"},"modified":"2011-08-06T20:29:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T04:29:46","slug":"rick-perry-is-not-too-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/06\/rick-perry-is-not-too-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry is not too smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Likely presidential candidate Rick Perry&#8217;s college transcript at Texas A &#038; AM has been published. Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/texas-people\/rick-perry\/huffpo-obtains-perrys-college-transcript\/\">highlights<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;In his freshman and sophomore year, Perry struggled with core science classes, earning D\u2019s in several organic chemistry classes and C\u2019s in general chemistry and physics.<\/p>\n<p>But after Perry switched his major at the beginning of his fall semester in 1970, his grades didn\u2019t improve. Perry got a C in Reproduction in Farm Animals, a C in genetics, a D in Feeds &#038; Feeding, a C in Sheep &#038; Angora Goat Production and two C\u2019s in animal breeding classes.<\/p>\n<p>Many of Perry\u2019s other classes involved military education. Perry has previously credited his time in the A&#038;M Corps of Cadets with giving him the necessary discipline to complete school. <\/p>\n<p>Perry got two C\u2019s in Development of Air Power and took four levels of World Military Systems, earning two C\u2019s, a B and an A. The A was one of only two Perry earned at college \u2014 the other was for a class called Improv. of Learning.<\/p>\n<p>The future governor only took one political science class while he was in school \u2014 American National Government, for which he earned a B. Other classes outside of Perry\u2019s &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/SUwLiEbDngQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Likely presidential candidate Rick Perry&#8217;s college transcript at Texas A &#038; AM has been published. Here are the highlights:<br \/>\n&#8230;In his freshman and sophomore year, Perry struggled with core science classes, earning D\u2019s in several organic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1664,827,149,11,1665],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-intelligence","category-mitt-romney","category-politics","category-rick-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43019"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43075,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43019\/revisions\/43075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}