{"id":145,"date":"2012-10-31T04:10:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T04:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/?p=145"},"modified":"2012-11-10T21:59:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T21:59:21","slug":"satansim-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2012\/10\/31\/satansim-in-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Satanism in Oklahoma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2012\/10\/time-occult-72.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-146\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2012\/10\/time-occult-72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2012\/10\/time-occult-72.jpg 400w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2012\/10\/time-occult-72-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>In celebration of what is perhaps my favorite holiday (next to <a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.wikia.com\/wiki\/May_4\">May 4th<\/a>), I thought I&#8217;d share an award-winning video one of my students made last fall. It concerns a place in the Oklahoma City metro surrounded by folklore and stories &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/thedemoniacal.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/purple-church.html\">the Purple Church<\/a>. Supposedly a Satanist or &#8220;devil worshiping&#8221; church, the location is a<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20090712203132AAv9blx\"> poorly kept secret<\/a> and as such the place has been the sight of untold thousands of teenage pants-wetting episodes. Katie Jones, an experimental psychology graduate student, took on the challenge of examining this urban legend, and came away from the experience&#8230;well, you&#8217;ll just have to watch the video to find out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Purple Church - A Foundation Legend\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynYnkpqyyEg?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of what is perhaps my favorite holiday (next to May 4th), I thought I&#8217;d share an award-winning video&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}