{"id":7510,"date":"2010-02-10T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/02\/10\/his-prayers-were-answered\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:16:08","slug":"his-prayers-were-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/his-prayers-were-answered\/","title":{"rendered":"His Prayers were Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>KATY, TX&#8211;A man in danger of losing his home had his prayers coincidentally answered Tuesday by the haphazard machinations of an indifferent and entirely random universe. Marvin Pewter, 45, was able to refinance his house after a radio station in Sioux Falls, SD played the favorite song of a local data-entry worker who, quietly singing along to the tune in her office, became distracted and missed a keystroke that eventually resulted in Pewter&#8217;s credit rating increasing by 200 points.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOh wait &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news_briefs\/prayers_answered_by_random\">it was just a story in The Onion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATY, TX&#8211;A man in danger of losing his home had his prayers coincidentally answered Tuesday by the haphazard machinations of an indifferent and entirely random universe. Marvin Pewter, 45, was able to refinance his house after a radio station in Sioux Falls, SD played the favorite song of a local data-entry worker who, quietly singing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/his-prayers-were-answered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">His Prayers were Answered<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1X8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}