{"id":3249,"date":"2015-03-25T22:50:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2015-03-25T22:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:52:06","slug":"mainstream-news-goes-nuts-for-schmaltzy-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/03\/25\/mainstream-news-goes-nuts-for-schmaltzy-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream news goes nuts for schmaltz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this evening, in the suburbs just south of OKC:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just found this after the tornado. God is with us <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/jinFEloPtP\">pic.twitter.com\/jinFEloPtP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Slim Chasey (@Chase__Rhodes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chase__Rhodes\/status\/580897472597250048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yes, &#8220;The Real Slim Chasey&#8221;\u00a0is taking it as a sign of divine providence that a set of wooden beams originally\u00a0shaped like a cross by design are <em>still<\/em> shaped like a cross even after being torn from the ground by the sort of catastrophe that archaic insurance policies would call an &#8220;act of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE ODDS MUST BE CRAZY!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This sort of superstitious\u00a0nonsense should be refuted at best, ignored at the least. Will our\u00a0thought leaders rise to the occasion?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/YasminMarie818\/status\/580899180622671872<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chase__Rhodes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Chase__Rhodes<\/a> Could we use this photo for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GMA<\/a>, and all other ABC News platforms? Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nia K. Phillips (@Nia_Official) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nia_Official\/status\/580900634817208321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LukeBurke\/status\/580902179885613056<\/p>\n<p>On that note, I&#8217;m giving up on civilization and going to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this evening, in the suburbs just south of OKC: Just found this after the tornado. God is with us&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","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=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}