{"id":187,"date":"2006-11-04T11:34:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T10:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=187"},"modified":"2006-11-04T11:34:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T10:34:38","slug":"are-rationalists-the-oppressed-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Are rationalists the oppressed minority?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Nowadays everyone&#8217;s either a conspiracy theorist or a believer in mysticism or the paranormal or a religious zealot. What&#8217;s happened to the enlightenment? Where is our voice? Nowadays, we rationalists are the oppressed minority.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know how Jon Ronson, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/weekend\/story\/0,,1937479,00.html\">this piece<\/a>, feels which is why I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/truth.html\">my web essay<\/a> on &#8220;The Reason For Truth&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nowadays everyone&#8217;s either a conspiracy theorist or a believer in mysticism or the paranormal or a religious zealot. What&#8217;s happened to the enlightenment? Where is our voice? Nowadays, we rationalists are the oppressed minority.&#8221; I know how Jon Ronson, author of this piece, feels which is why I wrote my web essay on &#8220;The Reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}