{"id":994,"date":"2013-01-25T12:33:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T18:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=994"},"modified":"2013-01-25T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T18:33:31","slug":"freethought-fridayreads-report-on-the-barnhouse-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/01\/25\/freethought-fridayreads-report-on-the-barnhouse-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Freethought #FridayReads \u2013 Report on the Barnhouse Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Fridays, I usually share a few thoughts on something that I&#8217;ve been reading lately or something that I&#8217;ve read a few times and consider worthwhile and relevant to skepticism or freethought. Today, I&#8217;m going do you one better, and share the story itself: <a href=\"http:\/\/umasd.schoolwires.com\/13331071013451130\/lib\/13331071013451130\/Vonnegut_(Barnhouse_Effect).doc\" target=\"_blank\">Report on the Barnhouse Effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never read any Vonnegut, this is an excellent starter piece. His usual global consciousness, apocalypticism, and wry humour are in effect, but for once he doesn&#8217;t go for his trademark darkly nihilistic ending. For once, he envisions a utopia that doesn&#8217;t take a turn for the dystopian. I can only assume that he must have been having an unusually pleasant week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fridays, I usually share a few thoughts on something that I&#8217;ve been reading lately or something that I&#8217;ve read&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freethought-in-popular-culture","category-friday-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}