{"id":3570,"date":"2015-09-29T09:47:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T14:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2015-09-29T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T14:50:31","slug":"wbc-god-hates-okwx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/09\/29\/wbc-god-hates-okwx\/","title":{"rendered":"WBC: GOD HATES #OKWX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a startling example of Poe&#8217;s Law, the folks at Westboro Baptist Church have come out strongly against the weather. Or rather, the godless scientists who study and predict it.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBCFliers\/status\/648607575580131328\/<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Westboro Baptist Church will picket the National Weather Service to remind them that ONLY by God&#8217;s mercy and power do you gather intelligence on His weather. The day comes when all weather rules, as you know them, will be gone&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had to double check just to be sure this was not a parody account, because it sounds just like the sort of thing that <i>The Onion<\/i> might well imagine WBC saying. Sure enough, WBC is <a href=\"http:\/\/godhatesfags.com\/fliers\">simultaneously scheduled<\/a> to picket &#8220;THE BORING WASTEFUL FACE OF MODERN, DOOMED AMERICAN &#8216;SCIENCE'&#8221; and &#8220;THE WORTHLESS &amp; WASTEFUL FACE OF MODERN, DOOMED AMERICAN &#8216;JOURNALISM'&#8221; at the same place and time. No doubt the University of Oklahoma is flattered to discover that they have become the face of modernity in so many and various respects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a startling example of Poe&#8217;s Law, the folks at Westboro Baptist Church have come out strongly against the weather.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","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=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}