{"id":142,"date":"2006-07-31T15:15:34","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T19:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/07\/31\/a-good-laugh\/"},"modified":"2006-07-31T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T19:15:34","slug":"a-good-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/07\/31\/a-good-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"A good laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read a number of the comments on this site<\/a> and got a good laugh. This particular one just has everything. It’s\u00c2\u00a0a real classic.<\/a> I have stated my disdain for the Intelligent Design idea a long time ago. I believe it was discussed and tossed out a few hundred years ago. This is the current farce created to mock the current ridiculous notion called Intelligent Design. It has allowed a lot of uber Christians to show their lack of intelligence. Every religion has them. And they don’t represent the religion. But they do make for some damned funny reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read a number of the comments on this site and got a good laugh. This particular one just has everything. It’s\u00c2\u00a0a real classic. I have stated my disdain for Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[537,555],"tags":[512,155,191,333],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-fodder","category-kapu-forbidden","tag-christianity","tag-fsm","tag-intelligent-design","tag-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-2i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":830,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2013\/02\/02\/mod-weekend-in-fort-lauderdale-march-15-17th\/","url_meta":{"origin":142,"position":0},"title":"Mod Weekend in Fort Lauderdale March 15-17th","author":"Swanky","date":"February 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The event will be March 15 - 17th and is centered around the Modern design of the Fort Lauderdale area. 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