{"id":27588,"date":"2012-04-25T23:35:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T05:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/earth-day-revisionism-revisited-a-few-days-late.html"},"modified":"2012-04-25T23:35:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T05:35:23","slug":"earth-day-revisionism-revisited-a-few-days-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/earth-day-revisionism-revisited-a-few-days-late.html","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Revisionism Revisited (a few days late)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually ran across a post from someone a few days back trotting out the &quot;The first Earth Day was chosen because it was Lenin&#39;s birthday because <i>environmentalists are all commie dictator atheist scumbags&quot;<\/i> meme.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I just rolled my eyes and moved on.  I really should have taken a few minutes to do some digging into it.  Fortunately, Ed Darrell already has (repeatedly, each year).<\/p>\n<p>(My favorite pareidoliac counter: it was also St Francis of Assisi&#39;s birthday, too, who&#39;s a far more appropriate associate of Earth Day, though that&#39;s just a coincidence, too.)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenlivingaz.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FFeature_GreenPersonality.jpg%3Fw%3D300%26h%3D300' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/timpanogos.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/22\/earth-day-honors-earth-our-majestic-home-not-lenin-2012-version\/'>Earth Day honors Earth, our majestic home \u2014 not Lenin (2012\u00a0version)<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis is mostly an encore post \u2014 sad that it needs repeating. You could write it off to pareidolia, once. Like faces in clouds, some people claimed to see a link. The first Earth Day, on April&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/8sU6wqdnnNv' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually ran across a post from someone a few days back trotting out the &quot;The first Earth Day was chosen because it was Lenin&#39;s birthday because environmentalists are all commie dictator atheist scumbags&quot; meme. At the time, I just rolled my eyes and moved on. I really should have taken a few minutes to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/earth-day-revisionism-revisited-a-few-days-late.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earth Day Revisionism Revisited (a few days late)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31457,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/not-to-rain-on-your-parade-but.html","url_meta":{"origin":27588,"position":0},"title":"Not to rain on your parade, but","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Nov-12 1:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"People think of Helium as a trivial, adundant gas. 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