{"id":522,"date":"2009-11-06T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/11\/06\/monsters-from-the-deep-a-fortean-adventure\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T11:42:00","slug":"monsters-from-the-deep-a-fortean-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/11\/06\/monsters-from-the-deep-a-fortean-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"MONSTERS FROM THE DEEP! A Fortean adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in the vicinity of London and are interested in Fortean and skeptical topics, do please come to<span style=\"font-style:italic\"> Monsters from the Deep!<\/span> It promises to be a fascinating journey into the deep sea myths and legends, from the perspective of science.<\/p>\n<p>Registration 10.30-11am. Finish 3pm (QandA session till 3.30pm if you want to stay longer).<\/p>\n<p>No booking required &#8211; just show up. Directions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conwayhall.org.uk\/where.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SPES\/CFIUK present:<br \/>MONSTERS FROM THE DEEP!<br \/>An interactive skeptical odyssey \u2013 with sound effects! University experts investigate tales of sea-monsters, mermaids, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 7th November, 11am-3pm (with good break for lunch) \u00a310.<br \/>Free to members of cfi uk, glha, spes, bha, new humanist and subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Charles Paxton, a scientist from the University of St Andrews, is one of the country\u2019s most qualified cryptozoologists, and he will be running both a lecture and workshop on monsters from the deep \u2013 mythical and real. Dr Darren Naish is a researcher at The University of Portsmouth, who will talk about the \u2018prehistoric survivor paradigm\u2019 and what it means (or doesn\u2019t mean) for \u2019sea monster\u2019 sightings. An interactive skeptical odyssey\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL \u2013 Main Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in the vicinity of London and are interested in Fortean and skeptical topics, do please come to Monsters from the Deep! It promises to be a fascinating journey into the deep sea myths and legends, from the perspective of science. Registration 10.30-11am. Finish 3pm (QandA session till 3.30pm if you want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}