{"id":30972,"date":"2020-10-23T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30972"},"modified":"2020-10-23T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:34:41","slug":"rip-james-randi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/23\/rip-james-randi\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP James Randi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Distinguished magician and skeptic James &#8220;The Amazing&#8221; Randi died a day or two ago at age 92, and <em><strong>The Onion<\/strong><\/em> has the <a href=\"https:\/\/entertainment.theonion.com\/psychic-already-sick-of-spectral-james-randi-ragging-on-1845453086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followup<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Struggling to mentally close herself off from the recently deceased skeptic, local psychic Rosemary Shanley confirmed Thursday she was already sick of James Randi\u2019s specter haunting her place of business and ragging on her from the afterlife. \u201cI\u2019m sitting here with my crystal ball trying to see into the future, and it\u2019s hard enough without the ghost of James Randi hovering in front of me and whispering that I\u2019m a fraud and a huckster,\u201d said Shanley, adding that she tried to banish the spirit of the famed debunker and stage magician by sprinkling holy water throughout the room, but the Amazing Randi just scoffed and called the ritual \u201ceasily disproved theatrics.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For a short while, before the ineffable currents of the Internet swept me away, I paid attention the <em><strong>James Randi Educational Foundation<\/strong><\/em> (<em><strong>JREF<\/strong><\/em>), and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.randi.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they&#8217;re still around<\/a>, although I don&#8217;t know how active. Definitely one of the forces for good on the Web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distinguished magician and skeptic James &#8220;The Amazing&#8221; Randi died a day or two ago at age 92, and The Onion has the followup: Struggling to mentally close herself off from the recently deceased skeptic, local psychic Rosemary Shanley confirmed Thursday she was already sick of James Randi\u2019s specter haunting her \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/23\/rip-james-randi\/\"> 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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30973,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions\/30973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}