{"id":4029,"date":"2016-12-19T12:34:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2016-12-19T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T15:19:08","slug":"david-stanley-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/12\/19\/david-stanley-xmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A David Stanley Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Merry Christmas from the David Stanley Autogroup\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/81JtjWGTOFI?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<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Founding Fathers, well, they had it right all along&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In God We Trust&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This feels like an unwarranted leap to me, seeing as the primary authors of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were famously skeptical about organized religion in general and staunchly separationist regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/01\/04\/secularism-open-for-all\/\">relationship between religion and the state<\/a>. Historical quibbling\u00a0aside, though,\u00a0I&#8217;m fairly impressed with Rob Stanley for openly and deliberately alienating\u00a0any potential customers who don&#8217;t share his religious convictions. He doesn&#8217;t need our business, and hopefully he won&#8217;t be getting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Founding Fathers, well, they had it right all along&#8230;&#8221; [&#8230;] &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; This feels like an unwarranted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-counter-apologetics","category-war-on-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","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=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}