{"id":44,"date":"2002-11-01T10:14:15","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T10:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=44"},"modified":"2002-11-01T10:14:15","modified_gmt":"2002-11-01T10:14:15","slug":"the-friday-five-highday-12-blotmath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Five &#8211; Highday,  12 Blotmath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridayfive.org\">Friday Five<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Were you raised in a particular religious faith?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I was raised Methodist.<\/p>\n<p><b>2. Do you still practice that faith? Why or why not?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t practice a religious faith because I don&#8217;t <i>have<\/i> a religious faith.  When I was growing up I attended church because it was expected, not because I felt it put me in communion with the divine.  Religion never made an emotional connection with me, and in my teens I finally admitted what I had long suspected, that I was an atheist.<\/p>\n<p><b>3. What do you think happens after death?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The body decomposes.<\/p>\n<p><b>4. What is your favorite religious ritual (participating in or just observing)?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>None that I could pick.<\/p>\n<p><b>5. Do you believe people are basically good?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For the most part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions courtesy of Friday Five: 1. Were you raised in a particular religious faith? I was raised Methodist. 2. Do you still practice that faith? Why or why not? I don&#8217;t practice a religious faith because I don&#8217;t have a religious faith. When I was growing up I attended church because it was expected, not<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=44\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Friday Five &#8211; Highday,  12 Blotmath&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4104],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}