{"id":2495,"date":"2014-05-22T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:28:08","slug":"skeptics-in-the-paseo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/05\/22\/skeptics-in-the-paseo\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeptics in the Paseo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-930\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/01\/20130105-162637.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-930\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/01\/20130105-162637.jpg\" alt=\"Caleb is the one on the right.\" width=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/01\/20130105-162637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/01\/20130105-162637-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caleb is the skeptic sporting a\u00a0black shirt and red beard, rather than vice-versa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/about\/\">Caleb Lack<\/a> is too cool and laid back to promote himself, I&#8217;m going to do that right now while he isn&#8217;t looking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>It&#8217;s been confirmed! Dr. Caleb Lack, of the UCO Skeptics and author of the &#8220;Great Plains Skeptic&#8221; column on the Skeptic Ink Network, will be speaking at the next Skeptics in the Pub. His talk is titled &#8220;Sharpening &amp; Leveling &#8211; How good communication leads you away from the truth&#8221;. The event will be at Picasso Cafe on June 9th, from 7 p.m. to around 9 p.m. we hope to see everyone there!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is the announcement from the (relatively new) local skeptics group known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OklahomaSkepticalSociety\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma Skeptical Society<\/a>. Go check them out!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know whether Caleb is an excellent public speaker, go watch this video from FreeOK 2012:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FreeOK2 - Caleb Lack &quot;Separating the Wheat from the Chaff&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tM8J9OGp_-E?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;\u00a0 Since Caleb Lack is too cool and laid back to promote himself, I&#8217;m going to do that right now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skepticism","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","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=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}