{"id":186426,"date":"2014-01-23T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/23\/pastafarians-in-the-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2014-01-23T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T01:58:00","slug":"pastafarians-in-the-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/23\/pastafarians-in-the-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastafarians in the Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/uEZ4GbW.jpg\" r=\"\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/uEZ4GbW.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a>Stephen Trimble <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stephen.trimble.758\/posts\/10151923830423316?stream_ref=1\">points us to a journalist covering demonstrations in Kiev<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trimble believes that this is an impromptu helmet.<br \/>I think not.<\/p>\n<p>You have no padding and thin gauge metal, so protection is minimal.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I think that this intrepid reporter is invoking the protection of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pastafarianism\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a>, may we all bask in his noodly goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Trimble points us to a journalist covering demonstrations in Kiev. Trimble believes that this is an impromptu helmet.I think not. You have no padding and thin gauge metal, so protection is minimal. Instead, I think that this intrepid reporter is invoking the protection of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, may we all bask in his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1040,1129,1124,978,1049,1021,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-former-soviet-union","category-journalism","category-photographs","category-politics","category-protests","category-religion","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}