{"id":16660,"date":"2012-02-23T08:53:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T08:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=16660"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:40:14","slug":"fringeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/fringeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Fringe-ology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fringe-ology<\/strong> is a term used to describe the study of such disparate subject as UFOS, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/pyramids\/\">pyramids<\/a>, psychics, crop circles<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><sup>(c)<\/sup><\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lost-civilisations\/\">lost civilisations<\/a>, the Illuminati etc., etc., as well as the frequent attempts to link some or all of these in some grand theory of everything. <em>Fringeology <\/em>is also the name of a website<sup>(a)<\/sup>, as well as a book<sup>(b)<\/sup> by American journalist, Steve Volk, who urges open-minded scepticism.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/fringeology.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/fringeology.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fringe-ology-Tried-Explain-Unexplainable-Couldnt\/product-reviews\/0061857718\/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=1&amp;sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fringe-ology-Tried-Explain-Unexplainable-Couldnt\/product-reviews\/0061857718\/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=1&amp;sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(c)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/10217151\/Crop-circles-demystified-how-the-patterns-are-created.html\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/10217151\/Crop-circles-demystified-how-the-patterns-are-created.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fringe-ology is a term used to describe the study of such disparate subject as UFOS, pyramids, psychics, crop circles(c), lost civilisations, the Illuminati etc., etc., as well as the frequent attempts to link some or all of these in some grand theory of everything. Fringeology is also the name of a website(a), as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2410,592,1529,2411,420,2412,618],"class_list":["post-16660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crop-circles","tag-fringeology","tag-illuminati","tag-lost-civilisations","tag-pyramids","tag-steve-volk","tag-ufos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66454,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660\/revisions\/66454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}