{"id":534,"date":"2011-03-18T05:16:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T09:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2011-03-18T05:16:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T09:16:05","slug":"atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Atheist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Atheist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not supposed to tell you I&#8217;m an atheist.<br \/>\nYou might be concerned I have no moral compass,<br \/>\nno certainty concerning the finer points of the universe.<br \/>\nBetter to dress it up and affect Taoist,<br \/>\nPlump it up and claim agnostic\u00e2\u20ac\u201dgush<br \/>\nGosh, wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to know?<br \/>\nMake of God such a windy abstraction<br \/>\none might as well pray to the wind,<br \/>\nbut please don&#8217;t say <em>that<\/em> word.<br \/>\nSorry.  I love life, Earth<br \/>\nits glorious habitat, sailing<br \/>\nthrough space, teeming with intelligent<br \/>\nfaithful killing each other to confirm<br \/>\nwhich speaks for God.  In silence I am<br \/>\nstill mindful of our course,<br \/>\nour vessel,<br \/>\nthe frailty of the crew,<br \/>\nits rare and precious cargo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atheist I&#8217;m not supposed to tell you I&#8217;m an atheist. You might be concerned I have no moral compass, no certainty concerning the finer points of the universe. Better to dress it up and affect Taoist, Plump it up and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=534\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}