{"id":3144,"date":"2015-01-16T20:58:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T02:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2015-01-16T20:58:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T02:58:42","slug":"happy-religious-freedom-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/01\/16\/happy-religious-freedom-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Religious Freedom Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3070\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/11\/B17uM0wIAAAjGCX.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3070 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/11\/B17uM0wIAAAjGCX.jpg\" alt=\"B17uM0wIAAAjGCX\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/11\/B17uM0wIAAAjGCX.jpg 600w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/11\/B17uM0wIAAAjGCX-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/11\/B17uM0wIAAAjGCX-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young freethinkers manning the wall of separation (while I take a potty break)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/01\/15\/presidential-proclamation-religious-freedom-day-2015\" target=\"_blank\">officially proclaimed<\/a> as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Religious_Freedom_Day\" target=\"_blank\">National Religious Freedom Day<\/a> for 2015, a holiday in honor of the\u00a0earliest attempts to enshrine freedom of conscience and religious practice into law.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with personal tradition, I spent a decent chunk of the\u00a0day combing through the nefarious plans of the Oklahoma Legislature to undermine religious freedom, because fate is not without impeccable timing and an infallible\u00a0sense of irony.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, the local chapter of Americans United will be hosting our umpteenth annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/819104194795689\/\" target=\"_blank\">Legislative Preview<\/a>, at which we will discuss those bills most likely to privilege the majority\u00a0religion at the expense of freethinkers and minority faiths. If you live in Oklahoma and care about separation of church and state, I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was officially proclaimed as National Religious Freedom Day for 2015, a holiday in honor of the\u00a0earliest attempts to enshrine&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-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","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=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}