{"id":716,"date":"2009-05-18T17:47:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=716"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:54:16","slug":"name-that-stain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/name-that-stain\/","title":{"rendered":"Name that Stain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-717\" title=\"vm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vm.jpg\" alt=\"vm\" hspace=\"3\" width=\"108\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vm.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/vm-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 108px) 100vw, 108px\" \/><\/a>What does this stain on a griddle look like to you?\u00c2\u00a0 It could be the famous praying hands painting.\u00c2\u00a0 Tilted sideways it could be the space shuttle.\u00c2\u00a0 Upside down, a jellyfish.\u00c2\u00a0 For the perverse, a butt plug.\u00c2\u00a0 But no, it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-virgin4-2009may04,0,6623680.story\">Virgin Mary<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 Because it&#8217;s <em>always <\/em>either the Virgin Mary or Jesus.\u00c2\u00a0 If it looks like an oval with a base it&#8217;s got to be the Virgin Mary.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s never an egg on a stand or Golda Myer or Katherine Zeta Jones, it&#8217;s always the grand old VM.\u00c2\u00a0 If it looks anything like a male with a beard it&#8217;s always Jesus H. Christ, never\u00c2\u00a0 John Lennon or Karl Marx or one of the guys from ZZ Top.<\/p>\n<p>And when one of these imagined images appears, it&#8217;s usually followed by faithful mouth-breathers showing up in droves to honor it.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after this story hit the wires, another one about JHC appearing on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueridgenow.com\/article\/20090422\/NEWS\/904229981?Title=Woman-sees-image-of-Jesus-on-cheese-toast\">cheese melt<\/a> appeared.\u00c2\u00a0 What a friend we have in cheeses.<\/p>\n<p>Believers, us non-believers really try to view you as good, decent folks who are wrong about one thing.\u00c2\u00a0 We try to avoid stereotyping you as mindless goobers.\u00c2\u00a0 We really do.\u00c2\u00a0 But when we see stories like this week after week after week, it&#8217;s not easy.\u00c2\u00a0 So knock it off, and grow up already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does this stain on a griddle look like to you?\u00c2\u00a0 It could be the famous praying hands painting.\u00c2\u00a0 Tilted sideways it could be the space shuttle.\u00c2\u00a0 Upside down, a jellyfish.\u00c2\u00a0 For the perverse, a butt plug.\u00c2\u00a0 But no, it&#8217;s the Virgin Mary.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 Because it&#8217;s always either the Virgin Mary or Jesus.\u00c2\u00a0 If it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}