{"id":349,"date":"2003-10-23T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-23T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/23\/"},"modified":"2003-10-23T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-23T17:39:00","slug":"349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/23\/349\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs2chicago.com\/topstories\/topstories_story_294132854.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/asparaguspee.blogspot.com\/mary.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Miracle?\" \/><\/a>They&#8217;ve spotted the Virgin Mary again. This time, she&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs2chicago.com\/topstories\/topstories_story_294132854.html\">tree stump<\/a> in Passaic, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m all for people worshipping whatever however they want, but it seems to me that if this is all it takes to call out the Diocese-mobile, I think I could find something that looked a little more like Mary without any huge difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I feel a little sorry for the church and how seriously they have to take all these claims, especially since the human brain is hard wired to see faces in everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msss.com\/education\/facepage\/face.html\">hills on Mars<\/a> to scorched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadsideamerica.com\/attract\/NMLAKtortilla.html\">tortillas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dilbert.com\/comics\/dilbert\/mystery_artist.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/asparaguspee.blogspot.com\/dilbert.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Mystery Artist Week\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"center\">All this week, Scott Adams is featuring Dilbert strips<br \/>drawn by other cartoonists. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dilbert.com\/comics\/dilbert\/mystery_artist.html\">Check it out.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve spotted the Virgin Mary again. This time, she&#8217;s a tree stump in Passaic, New Jersey. Now, I&#8217;m all for people worshipping whatever however they want, but it seems to me that if this is all it takes to call out the Diocese-mobile, I think I could find something that looked a little more like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/23\/349\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}