{"id":1243,"date":"2008-12-12T23:17:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T22:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2008-12-12T23:17:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T22:17:28","slug":"what-americans-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"What Americans believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some fascinating data <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrisinteractive.com\/harris_poll\/index.asp?PID=982\">here<\/a> &#8211; including the information that 24% of Americans believe that they were once someone else.<br \/>\nI guess that I would find it hard to be an American &#8211; of the 17 beliefs tested, I only hold one (a belief in evolution) and apparently that is a minority view in the US.<br \/>\nSo why do people believe weird things? &#8211; see one explanation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/science.html#Weird\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd why don&#8217;t I believe so many things that so many other people hold so dear? &#8211; see my reasoning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/truth.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some fascinating data here &#8211; including the information that 24% of Americans believe that they were once someone else. I guess that I would find it hard to be an American &#8211; of the 17 beliefs tested, I only hold one (a belief in evolution) and apparently that is a minority view in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}