{"id":4122,"date":"2011-07-14T14:11:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T20:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/many-atheists-are-too-serious\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T14:11:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T20:11:59","slug":"many-atheists-are-too-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/many-atheists-are-too-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Atheists Are Too Serious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find religion self-mocking, so I don\u2019t need to be a pastafarian. [hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1660251857\">John Young<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-14135523\">BBC News &#8211; Austrian driver allowed &#8216;pastafarian&#8217; headgear photo<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: right\" alt=\"Driving licence of Niko Alm\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/54049000\/jpg\/_54049868_hl_fuehrerschein_110712.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" \/> An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as &quot;religious headgear&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>Niko Alm first applied for the licence three years ago after reading that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for confessional reasons. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Alm said the sieve was a requirement of his religion, pastafarianism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-14135523\">BBC News &#8211; Austrian driver allowed &#8216;pastafarian&#8217; headgear photo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find religion self-mocking, so I don\u2019t need to be a pastafarian. [hat tip to John Young] BBC News &#8211; Austrian driver allowed &#8216;pastafarian&#8217; headgear photo An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as &quot;religious headgear&quot;. Niko Alm first applied for the licence three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/many-atheists-are-too-serious\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Many Atheists Are Too Serious<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}