{"id":181,"date":"2006-12-21T14:12:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2006-12-21T15:06:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T19:06:25","slug":"of-virgin-births-and-virgil-goode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Of Virgin Births and Virgil Goode"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we approach Christmas – a celebration of a singular instance of human parthenogenesis – George W. Bush is threatening to start World War III<\/a> (if he hasn’t already). This confluence is producing a series of strange and portentous events. First, an otherworldly fog<\/a> has enveloped the UK and induced a komodo dragon in a British zoo to conceive offspring without male contact<\/a>. Also in England, a woman with two wombs<\/a> has given birth to two babies from one womb and a third baby from the other – apparently the first such instance ever observed.<\/p>\n

The rest of the world, meanwhile, has gone topsy-turvy. Students in Iran are protesting<\/a> against their hardline President because they want more freedom of speech, while presumed US presidential candidate John McCain wants to stamp out blogging<\/a> as we know it (although he’s done it himself<\/a> when it helps to make him look good). Meanwhile a Virginia congresscritter with the unlikely name of Virgil H. Goode, Jr. (perhaps himself a product of parthenogenesis?) has come clean<\/a> with his views on religious freedom in the US. (Hint: he’s against it. The Huffington Post’s take<\/a> is direct and to the point.)<\/p>\n

What would Jesus do? I wasn’t sure, but the Deciderer knows. “I encourage you all,” he said during his news conference yesterday, “to go shopping more.” Caveat emptor!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we approach Christmas – a celebration of a singular instance of human parthenogenesis – George W. Bush is threatening to start World War III (if he hasn’t already). This confluence is producing a series of strange and portentous events. First, an otherworldly fog has enveloped the UK and induced a komodo dragon in a … Continue reading “Of Virgin Births and Virgil Goode”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-world-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}