{"id":1972,"date":"2013-08-29T16:20:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T21:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:01:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T02:01:35","slug":"another-monument-to-a-fictive-deity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/08\/29\/another-monument-to-a-fictive-deity\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Monument to a Fictive Deity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1986\" style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/08\/1209129_10201238524196432_1080559170.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1986\" alt=\"Who in the name of Azathoth is Creer Pipi?\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/08\/1209129_10201238524196432_1080559170.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/08\/1209129_10201238524196432_1080559170.jpg 537w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/08\/1209129_10201238524196432_1080559170-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who in the name of Azathoth is Creer Pipi?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written many times before of my distate for <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/08\/20\/aclu-takes-on-oklahoma-ten-commandments-monument\/\">giant stone monuments to mythical beings<\/a>, but for once we have news on that front which is\u00a0disturbing in a trollishly fun sort of way. Over at Odd Oklahoma, we have the <a href=\"http:\/\/oddoklahoma.com\/2013\/08\/27\/paseo-art\/\">bizarre tale<\/a> of a mysterious monument to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Azathoth\">Azathoth<\/a>\u00a0(the primordial blind idiot god at the centre of ultimate chaos) which has either been moved by vandals\u00a0or else &#8220;fell out of a hole in the universe and is the belated herald of the nightmare that is to come&#8221; and ended up on the lawn of Paseo Grill in downtown Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Between elaborate prank and token of the apocalypse, I don&#8217;t have a strong preference either way, but it&#8217;s certainly news worth pondering. Perhaps Jehovah will finally get some stiff competition around here in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/11\/22\/the-ten-commandments-210\/\">graven images<\/a> department.<\/p>\n<p>[Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/kfor.com\/2013\/08\/26\/strange-monument-mysteriously-shows-up-in-front-of-paseo-area-restaurant\/\" target=\"_blank\">KFOR<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>This monumental piece of history is <a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BSxenGvCEAA9GLv.jpg:large\">really hard to move<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve written many times before of my distate for giant stone monuments to mythical beings, but for once we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","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=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}