{"id":1596,"date":"2013-05-21T18:45:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T23:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2013-05-21T19:38:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T00:38:02","slug":"oklahoma-atheists-on-the-cable-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/05\/21\/oklahoma-atheists-on-the-cable-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Atheists on the Cable News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wolf Blitzer Asks Tornado Survivor if She Thanked the Lord; Replies She&#039;s an Atheist\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0LP3Zs_V_BQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Probably you&#8217;ve already seen or heard of this glorious\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2013\/05\/21\/asked-by-wolf-blitzer-if-she-thanked-god-for-surviving-the-tornado-oklahoma-woman-responds-im-actually-an-atheist\/\">accidental vignette<\/a>, in which our friend Rebecca drops the A-bomb on Wolf Blitzer. That&#8217;s right, CNN somehow managed to find one of the few atheists devastated by yesterday&#8217;s\u00a0tornadoes, and then ask them if they would like to thank the Lord. If I weren&#8217;t an atheist myself, I&#8217;d call that downright <em>providential<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When we played back this clip at home, my young daughter yelled &#8220;I know them!&#8221; to our great delight. It is great to see Oklahoma so well represented by such a sweet and friendly atheist, after such a horrible 24 hours. \u00a0Great job, Rebecca!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably you&#8217;ve already seen or heard of this glorious\u00a0accidental vignette, in which our friend Rebecca drops the A-bomb on Wolf&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}