{"id":3418,"date":"2015-06-18T19:21:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T00:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2015-06-18T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T00:21:30","slug":"throwbackthursday-special-freeok-in-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/06\/18\/throwbackthursday-special-freeok-in-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"#ThrowbackThursday special \u2013 #FreeOK in retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about the Oklahoma Freethought Convention on <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?s=FreeOK\">several previous occasions<\/a>, but today seems like a good day to recap some of my favorite moments from past events, since FreeOK 2015 is coming up this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><b>2011 talk from virologist Abbie Smith:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oklahoma Freethought Convention 2011 (speech 2 of 5) - Abbie Smith\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/afm3vjn0PuQ?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<p><b>2012 talk from (fellow SINner and avocational goat herder) Caleb Lack:<\/b><br \/>\n<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<p><b>2013 talk from Emily Boyer, who loved OKC so much that she decided to stay:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FREEOK 2013 - Emily Boyer: &quot;Secular Facts on Sexual Acts&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vxEmPfZgbQ8?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<p>Of course, not everyone goes for the talks. Lots of us attend primarily\u00a0to connect with old friends, make new friends, and strengthen our ties to the local freethinking community. Schmoozing with big name\u00a0atheists is just frosting on the cake.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3419\" style=\"width: 741px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/06\/177000_404506612929095_1491199641.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3419 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/06\/177000_404506612929095_1491199641.jpg\" alt=\"177000_404506612929095_1491199641\" width=\"741\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/06\/177000_404506612929095_1491199641.jpg 741w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/06\/177000_404506612929095_1491199641-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/06\/177000_404506612929095_1491199641-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/06\/177000_404506612929095_1491199641-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frosting can be wonderfully decadent, though<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I hope to see some of you guys at the fifth annual FreeOK this weekend. I&#8217;ll be wearing my SkepticInk t-shirt, so keep an eye out for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about the Oklahoma Freethought Convention on several previous occasions, but today seems like a good day to recap&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism","category-conferences","category-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","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=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}