{"id":871,"date":"2014-01-07T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=871"},"modified":"2014-01-07T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T20:39:15","slug":"the-psychology-of-religious-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"The Psychology of Religious Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Gruen sent this video on the psychological underpinnings of religious belief. It turns out we are programmed to imply intention in most things&#8230; hence animism (seeing meaning in tree rustling or clouds).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BqBz2aRa0qE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BqBz2aRa0qE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Gruen sent this video on the psychological underpinnings of religious belief. It turns out we are programmed to imply intention in most things&#8230; hence animism (seeing meaning in tree rustling or clouds). https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BqBz2aRa0qE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}