{"id":243,"date":"2012-03-23T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/243"},"modified":"2013-01-04T15:04:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T22:04:57","slug":"crisis-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/243","title":{"rendered":"Crisis of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>When I was a child, I use to believe in fairies. I believed that fairies brought autumn gold to leave, that they brought frost to the window panes. I even believed in the tooth fairy until I was in high school. Now I don&#8217;t believe in anything, even science. Can you help me in my crisis of faith?<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from?Brian Price of Ames, IA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Have you considered Rush Limbaugh? Nowadays many people put their faith in Rush. I used to believe in Gore Vidal, but now I find myself believing more in Joe Bob Briggs, or Tom Tomorrow. Of course any expert is only as good as his data, and anyone with a modem can cruise the internet, accumulating megabytes of useless data, pictures of Cindy Crawford, shareware that&#8217;s not worth the trouble to learn how to use. No, if you&#8217;re going to believe in anyone, believe in yourself. Come to think of it, you&#8217;d be better of to just believe in me.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>When I was a child, I use to believe in fairies. I believed that fairies brought autumn gold to leave, that they brought frost to the window panes. I even believed in the tooth fairy until I was in high school. Now I don&#8217;t believe in anything, even science. Can you help me in my crisis of faith?<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from?Brian Price of Ames, IA<\/span><\/em> <\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Have you considered Rush<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2> <div class=\"pgee-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/243\"><br><br>---\u00a0Here&#39;s the answer from Dr. Science<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-submitted-by-dr-science-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}