{"id":996,"date":"2011-08-01T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=983"},"modified":"2011-08-01T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T14:23:00","slug":"fake-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/fake-giants.html","title":{"rendered":"Fake Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019m sharing some links about the subject of alleged discoveries of giant skeletons because someone mentioned them to me at church yesterday. My relatively small stature thus has nothing to do with my interest in this subject\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/images\/giant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"215\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/photos\/odd\/giantman.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">They Might Be Giants at Snopes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/12\/071214-giant-skeleton_2.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Geographic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/library\/bl_giant_skeleton.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Giant Skeleton found in Middle East (Urban Legends)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalistinternational.net\/article\/20041001_en.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rationalist International on the origin of the photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yowcrooks.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/giant-skeleton-hoax.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Exposing the crooks behind the myth (traces some early versions)<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/giant-skeleton.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hoax-slayer has the same treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofhoaxes.com\/hoax\/photo_database\/image\/giant_human_skeleton\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Museum of Hoaxes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/afarensis\/2007\/12\/15\/giant_skeleton_hoax\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Afarensis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sharing some links about the subject of alleged discoveries of giant skeletons because someone mentioned them to me at church yesterday. My relatively small stature thus has nothing to do with my interest in this subject\u2026 They Might Be Giants at Snopes.com National Geographic Giant Skeleton found in Middle East (Urban Legends) Rationalist International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3934,4677,7845,9104,11373,13230],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-giant","tag-hoax","tag-myth","tag-photoshop","tag-skeleton","tag-urban-legend"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fake Giants<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;m sharing some links about the subject of alleged discoveries of giant skeletons because someone mentioned them to me at church yesterday. 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