{"id":5243,"date":"2007-12-31T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2007-12-31T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T06:40:00","slug":"prayer-as-rational-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/prayer-as-rational-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer as Rational Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Andreessen provides <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pmarca.com\/2007\/12\/the-world-is-no.html\" title=\"The world is not so flat, God of Visas edition -- Marc Andreessen\">the commentary of the day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Praying to the Visa God is actually quite a bit more rational than current US immigration policy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, prayer and superstition can both be pretty rational, depending on the context. We all live on hope, and if there no other source&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/linkyslove.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gautam John\">Gautam John<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Andreessen provides <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pmarca.com\/2007\/12\/the-world-is-no.html\" title=\"The world is not so flat, God of Visas edition -- Marc Andreessen\">the commentary of the day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Praying to the Visa God is actually quite a bit more rational than current US immigration policy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, prayer and superstition can both be pretty rational, depending on the context. We all live on hope, and if there no other source&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/linkyslove.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gautam John\">Gautam John<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prayer as Rational Behaviour - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/prayer-as-rational-behaviour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prayer as Rational Behaviour - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Marc Andreessen provides the commentary of the day: Praying to the Visa God is actually quite a bit more rational than current US immigration policy. 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