{"id":911,"date":"2007-05-20T23:17:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:05:49","slug":"opening-soon-the-worlds-most-dangerous-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/05\/20\/opening-soon-the-worlds-most-dangerous-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"opening soon: the world&#8217;s most dangerous museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&#8220;A fully engaging, sensory experience for guests. Murals and realistic scenery, computer-generated visual effects, over fifty exotic animals, life-sized people and dinosaur animatronics, and a special-effects theater complete with misty sea breezes and rumbling seats.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds good? Yeah. I thought so, too. Until you look at the topic matter or the URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creationmuseum.org\/\">http:\/\/www.creationmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently $27 million has been spent on this museum which will have exhibits showing humans sharing space with dinosaurs on Noah&#8217;s Ark. The caption under the lead image on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dicksonherald.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070521\/NEWS06\/705210369\">Tenneasean.com<\/a> where I first read about this reads: &#8220;The museum has permanent staffers sign a statement of faith that says they believe that dinosaurs and man once co-existed.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interesting (read: scary) thing about this is that while freedom of speech of course allows anyone to hold these views, the fact that they are framing these beliefs within a museum context lends some kind of credibility &#8211; which of course anyone with a sane head on their shoulders knows is false.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are probably some parallels with the discussions we&#8217;ve all had about museum authority and web2.0 but to be honest I just wanted to post about something off-topic because it pissed me off. I&#8217;ll flag it as irrelevant and then you can avoid future posts next time I rant \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A fully engaging, sensory experience for guests. Murals and realistic scenery, computer-generated visual effects, over fifty exotic animals, life-sized people and dinosaur animatronics, and a special-effects theater complete with misty sea breezes and rumbling seats.&#8221; Sounds good? Yeah. I thought so, too. Until you look at the topic matter or the URL: http:\/\/www.creationmuseum.org Apparently $27 &#8230; <a title=\"opening soon: the world&#8217;s most dangerous museum\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/05\/20\/opening-soon-the-worlds-most-dangerous-museum\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about opening soon: the world&#8217;s most dangerous museum\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}