{"id":107,"date":"2004-09-03T12:34:31","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=107"},"modified":"2004-09-03T12:37:23","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T16:37:23","slug":"religious-nuttiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Religious nuttiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"vmary\"<\/p>\n

What does the above image look like to you? To me, it looks like a random blob on a poorly made cheap balloon. But to a bunch of Texans, this blob apparently looks like the Virgin Mary<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Javier Fuentes, a salesman a Payne Weslaco Motors, says he was out to sell new cars Tuesday morning until his day “blew up” into something else. <\/p>\n

“Everybody was blowing some balloons and we noticed that this image came from the balloon,” said Fuentes. “And everybody was agreeing that it looked like the Virgin Mary.” <\/p>\n

On closer inspection, Fuentes says he noted that the image was more than just a possible defect on a balloon. <\/p>\n

“That’s what I thought in the beginning and I tried to erase it and I couldn’t. I even tried to put some saliva on it and it didn’t go away.” <\/p>\n

And some of his co-workers at the dealership say they were moved to tears after seeing the image.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously I’m a skeptic. But, I’ve seen far more convincing apparitions. This? It’s a blob. Quit yer cryin’, pop the balloon, and move on, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texans see the Virgin mary in a balloon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}