{"id":3277,"date":"2015-04-06T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2015-04-15T20:57:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T01:57:55","slug":"easter-weekend-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/04\/06\/easter-weekend-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter weekend roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you spent the weekend with a huge extended family,\u00a0all of whom are culturally Christian, but about half of whom are secular.\u00a0Easter egg hunts, candy, NBA basketball, and (of course) a massive feast featuring pork products so as to set us apart from the other Abrahamic faiths. Good times had by all.<\/p>\n<p>Given all these\u00a0real world goings-on, what did we\u00a0miss on the internet over the weekend?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/alethianworldview\/2015\/04\/04\/how-to-evolve-a-resurrection-myth\/\" target=\"_blank\">excellent post<\/a> at FtB outlining how Easter may have really happened<\/li>\n<li>The usual <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/easter-passover-stories-from-weekend.html\" target=\"_blank\">annoyingly deferential treatment<\/a> from the White House<\/li>\n<li>The usual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/crossexamined\/2015\/04\/the-bible-cant-even-get-the-easter-story-straight-gospel-jesus-resurrection-crucifixion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Easter Challenge<\/a> from an unbeliever, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2015\/04\/03\/before-you-celebrate-easter-check-out-this-infographic-showing-how-the-gospels-got-it-all-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">this one too<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2015\/04\/05\/many-german-states-still-ban-dancing-and-loud-music-over-easter-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\">unusual post<\/a> about German Easter laws at Friendly Atheist<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2015\/04\/03\/horrible-story-passover\/\" target=\"_blank\">challenging post<\/a> about Passover, from Staks here at SIN<\/li>\n<li>From my favorite recipe blogger:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/physioprof\/2015\/04\/06\/easter-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cute guys in weird hats<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did I miss any good Easter posts? Please let me know in the comments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1354\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/5152f5fd39.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1354\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/5152f5fd39.png\" alt=\"Sometimes the photo says it all\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/5152f5fd39.png 500w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/5152f5fd39-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2013\/03\/5152f5fd39-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sometimes the photo really says it all<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you spent the weekend with a huge extended family,\u00a0all of whom are culturally Christian, but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}