{"id":5202,"date":"2010-08-16T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2010-08-16T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:56:17","slug":"michael-shermer-the-pattern-behind-self-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/michael-shermer-the-pattern-behind-self-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_6-iVz1R0o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things &#8212; from alien abductions to dowsing rods &#8212; boils down to two of the brain&#8217;s most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things &#8212; from alien abductions to dowsing rods &#8212; boils down to two of the brain&#8217;s most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1lU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}