{"id":8253,"date":"2017-02-23T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8253"},"modified":"2017-02-23T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:48:08","slug":"word-of-the-day-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/02\/23\/word-of-the-day-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pareidolia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ability to see pictures in random forms &#8211; as in clouds, tea leaves, and inkblots &#8211; is known as <em>pareidolia<\/em>; the images themselves are called <em>simulacra<\/em>. Some publicized examples I have made pilgrimages to to [sic] examine include the face of Jesus in the skillet burns of a tortilla; &#8230; [&#8220;<em>Investigative Files<\/em>&#8220;, Joe Nickell, <em><strong>Skeptical Inquirer<\/strong><\/em> (March\/April 2017, not online)]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You see <em>pareidolia<\/em> used relatively frequently in <em><strong>SI<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pareidolia: The ability to see pictures in random forms &#8211; as in clouds, tea leaves, and inkblots &#8211; is known as pareidolia; the images themselves are called simulacra. Some publicized examples I have made pilgrimages to to [sic] examine include the face of Jesus in the skillet burns of a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/02\/23\/word-of-the-day-99\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-8253","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\/8253","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=8253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8255,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions\/8255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}