{"id":108946,"date":"2009-12-28T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=9441"},"modified":"2009-12-28T15:41:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T20:41:23","slug":"bananeidolia-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/108946","title":{"rendered":"Bananeidolia | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/jesus-image-appears-on-banana-peel\/story-e6freuy9-1225812846613\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2009\/12\/bananeidolia.jpg\" alt=\"bananeidolia\" title=\"bananeidolia\" width=\"206\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9442\"\/><\/a>Quick! Someone call <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/10\/02\/slandering-darwin\/\">Ray Comfort<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Yup. It&#8217;s Jesus in a banana peel. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/jesus-image-appears-on-banana-peel\/story-e6freuy9-1225812846613\">The article<\/a> has all the usual nonsense, so I&#8217;ll spare you the details. But my favorite part is where the banana owner says, &#8220;It definitely wasn\u2019t that way when I bought it from [the store]&#8230;. &#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;sarcasm&gt;Yes, because once you buy a banana and bring it home, it stays exactly the same forever.&lt;\/sarcasm&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Sigh. I&#8217;ve had bananas go bad <em>on the way<\/em> home from the store. Bananas are the least stable fruit ever. I bet ten minutes after that picture was taken it looked more like <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/12\/18\/terroreidolia\/\">the pareidolia in the kitchen sink<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose there will never come a day when the mainstream media will have an article with a picture like this with the headline, &#8220;Random pattern in object appears to look vaguely face-like; owner makes no claim of divinity&#8221;. That would certainly be news to me!<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip o&#8217; the polyphenoloxidase to Mauro Mello, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DVC-SQIQ4CGlooWLRz7P3L8AAeQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DVC-SQIQ4CGlooWLRz7P3L8AAeQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DVC-SQIQ4CGlooWLRz7P3L8AAeQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DVC-SQIQ4CGlooWLRz7P3L8AAeQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/NxhiAznpmTY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/GeJs4-emau4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick! Someone call Ray Comfort! Yup. It&#8217;s Jesus in a banana peel. The article has all the usual nonsense, so I&#8217;ll spare you the details. But my favorite part is where the banana owner says, &#8220;It definitely wasn\u2019t that way when I bought it from [the store]&#8230;. &#8220;. &lt;sarcasm&gt;Yes, because once you buy a banana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}