{"id":421,"date":"2015-06-26T00:03:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T05:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2015-06-26T00:03:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T05:03:01","slug":"weird-things-are-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/weird-things-are-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird things are fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m finishing up my current main project, I thought I&#8217;d post something about a side interest. Every once in a while I go through a phase where I learn about a bunch of weird things. It&#8217;s usually the paranormal, but I also include more normal categories that I just find strange, such as undeciphered codes. It had been a long time since one of these phases had come around, but I&#8217;ve had a couple in the last month or two.<\/p>\n<p>So on the wiki I&#8217;ve started a list of <a href=\"\/wiki\/Favorite_Weird_Cases\">some of my favorite weird things<\/a>. It&#8217;ll grow over time. This list is specifically for historical or pseudoscientific weird things that people claim to be true. It&#8217;s not for religious or philosophical weirdness or for speculative fiction. I&#8217;ll make other lists for those sometime later. Even if you&#8217;re not into the paranormal or conspiracy theories, there are plenty of regular mysteries on the list that might interest you. I even put them first. So take a look. I promise your sanity won&#8217;t dissolve &#8230; <em>right<\/em> away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m finishing up my current main project, I thought I&#8217;d post something about a side interest. Every once in a while I go through a phase where I learn about a bunch of weird things. It&#8217;s usually the paranormal, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/26\/weird-things-are-fun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site_updates","category-weird_stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}