{"id":1156,"date":"2009-07-17T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/07\/emerald-lunacy.html"},"modified":"2009-07-17T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T12:28:00","slug":"emerald-lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/07\/emerald-lunacy.html","title":{"rendered":"Emerald Lunacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a joke at first, but apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/ireland\/2009\/0713\/1224250543694.html\">Ireland has passed a law making blasphemy a crime<\/a>, punishable by a \u20ac25,000 fine.  This is a wonderful bit of anachronistic legislation.  Doubtless just the first step as they return to burning witches and stoning adulterers as well.  Ahhh, the good old days.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, they are making our legislators look like rocket scientists.  A feat which is not a feat easily undertaken since Senator Sam Brownback <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0709\/Mermaids_Centaurs_and_Sam_Brownback.html?showall\">just introduced a bill<\/a> prohibiting the creation of animal\/human hybrids in the laboratory.  This should effectively set <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076210\/\">Dr. Moreau&#8217;s<\/a> research back a few years.  Although this isn&#8217;t a done deal yet, as I expect this bill to be under a lot of pressure from the Superhero lobby (Batman, Spiderman, Catwoman, Hawkman, etc.).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a joke at first, but apparently Ireland has passed a law making blasphemy a crime, punishable<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/07\/emerald-lunacy.html\" title=\"Read Emerald Lunacy\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}