{"id":42,"date":"2007-03-07T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/07\/psst-have-you-heard-about-the-secret\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T08:33:00","slug":"psst-have-you-heard-about-the-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/07\/psst-have-you-heard-about-the-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Psst&#8230; have you heard about The Secret?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Secret-Rhonda-Byrne\/dp\/1582701709\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2\/105-1801155-3470054?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1173256453&amp;sr=8-2\" alt=\"Psst... Hey, buddy...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/weblog\/secret.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>So Oprah&#8217;s been at it again, and the big new buzz is a book and a movie called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesecret.tv\/home.html\" alt=\"\"><em>The Secret<\/em><\/a>. It&#8217;s basically just a rehash of a bunch of old stuff like the law of attraction, positive thinking, affirmations, and karma. No great harm, but as my mentor Jim Rhon says, &#8220;Affirmation without labor is the beginning of <em>delusion<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, here&#8217;s a great big bashing review over at skeptic.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/eskeptic\/07-03-07.html\" alt=\"\"><br \/>The Secret behind <em>The Secret<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Scroll down when you get there.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Oprah&#8217;s been at it again, and the big new buzz is a book and a movie called The Secret. It&#8217;s basically just a rehash of a bunch of old stuff like the law of attraction, positive thinking, affirmations, and karma. No great harm, but as my mentor Jim Rhon says, &#8220;Affirmation without labor is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/07\/psst-have-you-heard-about-the-secret\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Psst&#8230; have you heard about The Secret?&#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":[37,36,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oprah","category-skeptics","category-the-secret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}