{"id":538,"date":"2005-08-27T16:14:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T21:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=538"},"modified":"2005-08-27T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-27T21:14:58","slug":"on-the-flying-spaghetti-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"On the Flying Spaghetti Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I agree with my brother&#8211;the Internet is the greatest single contributing factor in the decline of humanity&#8217;s collective intelligence.  Witness the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Satire.  Parody.  Mockery.  Make of it what you wish.<\/p>\n<p>The Flying Spaghetti Monster may have created the universe.  Or not.  It puts me in mind of the cosmic sneeze that might have created the universe in <i>Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venganza.org\/index.htm\">letter on the beliefs of Pastafarianism<\/a> makes for strangely compelling reading.  Even if it&#8217;s a total joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I agree with my brother&#8211;the Internet is the greatest single contributing factor in the decline of humanity&#8217;s collective intelligence. Witness the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Satire. Parody. Mockery. Make of it what you wish. The Flying Spaghetti Monster may have created the universe. Or not. It puts me in mind of the cosmic sneeze that<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=538\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Flying Spaghetti Monster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[592,996,4133],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-flying-spaghetti-monster","tag-pastarfarianism","tag-pirates","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}