{"id":383,"date":"2009-02-13T11:04:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2009-02-13T11:04:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:04:33","slug":"a-little-bit-of-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/a-little-bit-of-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"A little bit of humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a friend a couple days ago about some new books I&#8217;d just received from Amazon. I got <a title=\"Only a Theory\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/067001883X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=26thavenue-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=067001883X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Only a Theory<\/a> by Kenneth Miller and <a title=\"Why Darwin Matters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0805083065?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=26thavenue-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0805083065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why Darwin Matters<\/a> by Michael Shermer. He doesn&#8217;t really follow all the &#8220;Intelligent Design&#8221; shenanigans, so when I told him that one of the books was a sort of thrashing of ID.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Man&#8230; isn&#8217;t that horse deader than SeaBiscuit?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I replied that sadly, it was not.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Maybe it got resurrected. It died, lay in a cave for three days, and then came back out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Laughter ensued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a friend a couple days ago about some new books I&#8217;d just received from Amazon. I got Only a Theory by Kenneth Miller and Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer. He doesn&#8217;t really follow all the &#8220;Intelligent Design&#8221; shenanigans, so when I told him that one of the books was a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/a-little-bit-of-humor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A little bit of humor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[130,249,311,442,523,742],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-books","tag-darwin","tag-evolution","tag-intelligent-design","tag-miller","tag-shermer","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}