{"id":13070,"date":"2005-11-15T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/15\/the-gospel-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster\/"},"modified":"2005-11-15T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T22:34:00","slug":"the-gospel-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/15\/the-gospel-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venganza.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Gospel Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/FSM-book-banner.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkmetro.com\/nymetro\/news\/people\/columns\/intelligencer\/15011\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>New York Magazine<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/behind_the_deal\/inside_the_flying_spaghetti_monster_deal_27730.asp\" target=\"_blank\">galleycat<\/a> report that Robert Henderson, the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/venganza.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a>, received an $80,000 advance for his upcoming book <i>The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/i>.  The tome, which will &ldquo;codify <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pastafarianism\" target=\"_blank\">Pastafarianism<\/a>,&rdquo; is set to come out on Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;My hope is that readers won&rsquo;t know if I&rsquo;m trying to make a point about pseudoscience or if I&rsquo;m a complete nut,&rdquo; says Henderson. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be really disappointed if it doesn&rsquo;t spawn a cult.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This news makes me very happy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\" target=\"_blank\">Kottke.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">The J-Walk Blog<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/fsm\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">fsm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/religion\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/literature\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">literature<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-113139391568899993?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Magazine and galleycat report that Robert Henderson, the founder of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, received an $80,000 advance for his upcoming book The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The tome, which will &ldquo;codify Pastafarianism,&rdquo; is set to come out on Valentine\u2019s Day. &ldquo;My hope is that readers won&rsquo;t know &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/15\/the-gospel-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Gospel Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}