{"id":1511,"date":"2009-08-04T18:55:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2009-08-04T18:55:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T17:55:24","slug":"the-boundaries-of-belief-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1511","title":{"rendered":"The boundaries of belief (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote: &#8220;I sometimes think that no belief is too weird that someone somewhere &#8211; probably quite thoughtful and intelligent &#8211; will hold that belief. I really wonder whether there are any boundaries to some people&#8217;s belief systems.&#8221;<br \/>\nToday we have yet another example with the BBC web site&#8217;s coverage of the ridiculous suggestion that Barack Obama is not eligible to be President of the USA because he is not a US citizen &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/8171314.stm\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nI suppose, if Sarah Palin ever became President, someone would query the validity of the sale of Alaska by Russia to the USA in 1867 and claim that she was in fact Russian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wrote: &#8220;I sometimes think that no belief is too weird that someone somewhere &#8211; probably quite thoughtful and intelligent &#8211; will hold that belief. I really wonder whether there are any boundaries to some people&#8217;s belief systems.&#8221; Today we have yet another example with the BBC web site&#8217;s coverage of the ridiculous suggestion [&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-1511","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\/1511","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=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}