{"id":1896,"date":"2009-04-21T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T03:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2009-04-21T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T03:37:03","slug":"miscellany-april-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/miscellany-april-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany, April 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>For those who liked the <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1757\">earlier item<\/a> on <em>pareidolia<\/em> (the tendency of observers to see religious or other significant images in random patterns) here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/galleries\/religious_sightings\/religious_sightings.html#ph10\">photo gallery<\/a> with more such apparitions, including a &#8220;hand of God&#8221; in an image of a star&#8217;s energy field, a crimson flower resembling the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, and many sightings of the Virgin Mary, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/galleries\/religious_sightings\/religious_sightings.html#ph10\">one in a crispy snack<\/a> of the onion-flavored sort known as Funyuns, for which $609 was offered on eBay.<\/li>\n<li>Authorit\u00e9: Hillary launches intimidating new fragrance line [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news_briefs\/hillary_clinton_launches?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\">The Onion<\/a>] In all seriousness, evidence has been piling up that women&#8217;s ability to detect scent is different from and probably <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/7981133.stm\">more discerning than men&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A cell of Iraqi children allegedly trained by al Qaeda as suicide bombers were given the name &#8220;birds of paradise&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/iraq\/article6135887.ece\">said to be derived<\/a> &#8220;from the Islamic belief that when children die they become birds of paradise&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Durban II&#8221; U.N. anti-racism, anti-U.S. conference is the <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MDdjNDk5OGZiNGU3YjE1MzcyYzFiMTkwZmQ0ODYyYzg=\">perfect arena in which<\/a> to push those noxious resolutions encouraging countries to criminalize the &#8220;defamation of religion&#8221; (earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=134\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=955\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1808\">here<\/a>). More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/09\/AR2009040903155.html\">Jonathan Turley<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Couldn&#8217;t possibly be a coincidence!&#8221; Or maybe it could; <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/04\/sunday-psa.html\">this video explains<\/a> why seemingly uncanny events can in fact be probable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who liked the earlier item on pareidolia (the tendency of observers to see religious or other significant images in random patterns) here&#8217;s a photo gallery with more such apparitions, including a &#8220;hand of God&#8221; in an image of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/miscellany-april-22\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}