{"id":6495,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/that-bug-is-a-humbug\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","slug":"that-bug-is-a-humbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/that-bug-is-a-humbug\/","title":{"rendered":"That Bug Is A Humbug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students at Harvard once tried to fool the famous professor of zoology Louis Agassiz (1807-1873).  They took parts from a number of different bugs and with great skill attached them together to make a creation they were sure would baffle their teacher.  On the chosen day they brought it to him and asked that he identify it.  As he inspected it with great care, the students grew more and more sure they had tricked this genius.  Finally, Professor Agassiz straightened up and said, \u201cI have identified it.\u201d  Scarcely able to control their amusement, they asked its name.  Agassiz replied, \u201cIt is a humbug.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A person with genuine life from God will detect the counterfeit and think, \u201cHumbug\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of students at Harvard once tried to fool the famous professor of zoology Louis Agassiz (1807-1873). They took parts from a number of different bugs and with great skill attached them together to make a creation they were sure would baffle their teacher. On the chosen day they brought it to him and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1906,1795,1907,1905],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}