{"id":2376,"date":"2014-02-07T19:09:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T01:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2014-02-07T19:09:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T01:09:41","slug":"biggest-douche-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/02\/07\/biggest-douche-in-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Douche in the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140207-184742.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140207-184742.jpg\" alt=\"20140207-184742.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Edward is visiting my city this evening, charging people $150 a pop to tell them what they would like to hear about their deceased loved ones. I&#8217;m not going to make it out to <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2012\/11\/16\/protesting-pseudoscience-a-how-to-guide\/\">publicly protest<\/a> him tonight, because it is 26\u00b0 F (and dropping) and I&#8217;m stuck in an SUV with a sleeping toddler right at the moment. (Life. Don&#8217;t talk to me about life.)<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#8217;d still like to register my utter and complete contempt for anyone who deliberately preys on people who are emotionally distraught by the loss of a loved one. I&#8217;ve buried enough loved ones to know what it&#8217;s like to have unfinished business, and to have to live with the fact that you never talked shit out. I cannot begin to imagine the utterly indifferent moral depravity it would take to knowingly take advantage of people in that emotional state.<\/p>\n<p>Respect, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Edward is visiting my city this evening, charging people $150 a pop to tell them what they would like&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","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=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}