{"id":175208,"date":"2023-10-31T02:24:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T07:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/are-ghosts-real-a-social-psychologist-examines-the-evidence"},"modified":"2023-10-31T02:24:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T07:24:34","slug":"are-ghosts-real-a-social-psychologist-examines-the-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/are-ghosts-real-a-social-psychologist-examines-the-evidence","title":{"rendered":"Are ghosts real? A social psychologist examines the evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-ghosts-real-a-social-psychologist-examines-the-evidence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an article for <em>The Conversation<\/em>, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of sociology Barry Markovsky looks at people\u2019s belief in ghosts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it possible for there to be ghosts? \u2014 Madelyn, age 11, Fort Lupton, Colorado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Certainly, lots of people believe in ghosts \u2014 a spirit left behind after someone who was alive has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article for The Conversation, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of sociology Barry Markovsky looks at people\u2019s belief in ghosts. Is it possible for there to be ghosts? \u2014 Madelyn, age 11, Fort Lupton, Colorado Certainly, lots of people believe in ghosts \u2014 a spirit left behind after someone who was alive has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}