{"id":528648,"date":"2010-04-15T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T13:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=13499"},"modified":"2010-04-15T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T13:28:06","slug":"i-am-a-skeptic-chipmunk-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528648","title":{"rendered":"I am a skeptic chipmunk | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/08\/25\/10-saving-throw-of-skepticism\/\">I linked<\/a> to Crispian Jago&#8217;s brilliant Skeptic Trump playing cards, featuring a few of skepticism&#8217;s stars. He included me in that constellation&#8230; but apparently was determined to make up for it <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/crispian-jago.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/skeptic-trumps-phil-plait.html\">by updating the cards<\/a> and implying I have gained weight, presumably all in my mandible:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/crispian-jago.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/skeptic-trumps-phil-plait.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/04\/skeptictrump_philplait.jpg\" alt=\"skeptictrump_philplait\" title=\"skeptictrump_philplait\" width=\"513\" height=\"482\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13500\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmph. I think <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/crispian-jago.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/skeptic-trumps-rebecca-watson.html\">Rebecca<\/a> faired better, though apparently she ironically has the mumps (I blame Jenny McCarthy). To be fair, though, he nailed <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/crispian-jago.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/skeptic-trumps-ben-goldacre.html\">Ben Goldacre&#8217;s hair<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/crispian-jago.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/skeptic-trumps-brian-cox.html\">Brian Cox&#8217;s teeth<\/a>. And, I&#8217;ll admit: it&#8217;s not bad company for a chipmunk.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UhKkw7KMSDA02KY5Ktvd87T2R6I\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UhKkw7KMSDA02KY5Ktvd87T2R6I\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UhKkw7KMSDA02KY5Ktvd87T2R6I\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UhKkw7KMSDA02KY5Ktvd87T2R6I\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/0G10ZwlFxWk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/IPyfajcUh18\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I linked to Crispian Jago&#8217;s brilliant Skeptic Trump playing cards, featuring a few of skepticism&#8217;s stars. He included me in that constellation&#8230; but apparently was determined to make up for it by updating the cards and implying I have gained weight, presumably all in my mandible: Hmph. I think Rebecca faired better, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528648","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=528648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}