{"id":755,"date":"2012-12-08T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T00:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=755"},"modified":"2012-12-15T18:46:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T00:46:32","slug":"complimentary-earplugs-part-8-of-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/12\/08\/complimentary-earplugs-part-8-of-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Complimentary Earplugs (Part 8 of 100)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before Sam Singleton, before the FSM, before the IPU, there was the original American parody religion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SubGenius Commercial\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qt9MP70ODNw?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>If you haven&#8217;t yet heard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church_of_the_SubGenius\">Church of the\u00a0Subgenius<\/a>, well, you&#8217;re missing out. They have roots going back to the 1970&#8217;s and not a few commonalities with Discordianism. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subgenius.com\/ts\/hos.html\">Hour of Slack<\/a> radio show \/ podcast is on episode #1389 by now, and I&#8217;m almost sure that&#8217;s a legitimate number, not even adjusted for inflation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Before Sam Singleton, before the FSM, before the IPU, there was the original American parody religion&#8230; If you haven&#8217;t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complimentary-earplugs","category-freethought-in-popular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","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=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}