{"id":2048,"date":"2016-08-18T12:11:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2017-01-13T23:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T07:57:24","slug":"physics-religion-and-south-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/physics-religion-and-south-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics, religion and South Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes things go awry. Especially on <em>South Park<\/em>. How delightful to see in this Wisecrack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z9OcG5A788Q\">video<\/a>\u00a0about the representation of religion in <em>South Park,<\/em>\u00a0a discussion of IFF director Margaret Wertheim&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pythagorass-Trousers-God-Physics-Gender\/dp\/0393317242\">book<\/a> <em>Pythagoras&#8217; Trousers \u2013<\/em>\u00a0itself a history of the relationship between physics and religion. Included is an animation of Margaret and <em>South Park<\/em> creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, doing a googly-eyed dance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"South Park on RELIGION \u2013 Wisecrack Edition\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z9OcG5A788Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes things go awry. Especially on South Park. How delightful to see in this Wisecrack video\u00a0about the representation of religion in South Park,\u00a0a discussion of IFF director Margaret Wertheim&#8217;s book Pythagoras&#8217; Trousers \u2013\u00a0itself a history of the relationship between physics and religion. Included is an animation of Margaret and South Park creators, Matt Stone and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}