{"id":5113,"date":"2006-12-20T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T16:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/immaculate-conception.html"},"modified":"2006-12-20T16:41:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T16:41:52","slug":"immaculate-conception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/immaculate-conception.html","title":{"rendered":"Immaculate Conception"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photohome.com\/pictures\/animal-pictures\/wildlife\/komodo-dragon-1a.jpg\" align=\"top\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Until now I thought immaculate conception was only happening in religion and Star Wars. Now, the komodo dragon of all things has been shown to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601082&amp;sid=apLYpeppu8ag&amp;refer=canada\"><font color=\"#800080\">reproduce asexually<\/font><\/a>. I would imagine this is huge news for the world of science and it also means the movie version of Godzilla finally makes sense.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#ff0000\">Update:<\/font><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The following has come to my attention. I am no religion expert and thanks to Joe Fabiano for pointing the following out. <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt\"><font size=\"2\">The Immaculate Conception is often confused with the belief that Jesus was a virgin birth. However, the Immaculate Conception actually is the belief that upon Mary&rsquo;s conception in her mother&rsquo;s womb, God removed the stain of original sin&hellip; It actually has nothing to do with the belief that Mary was a virgin when she conceived Jesus&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now I thought immaculate conception was only happening in religion and Star Wars. Now, the komodo dragon of all things has been shown to reproduce asexually. I would imagine this is huge news for the world of science and it also means the movie version of Godzilla finally makes sense. &nbsp; Update: &nbsp; The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[1661,1662],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}