{"id":1553,"date":"2004-12-29T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T21:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2006-03-03T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T17:24:38","slug":"the-jolly-old-elf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"the jolly old elf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My contemporary <a href=\"http:\/\/highclearing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/12\/21\/3777\">Jim Henley<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.highclearing.com\/archivesuo\/week_2004_12_19.html#005735\">alternate archive<\/a>) reminisces:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dammit, when I was a boy we had to <em>work<\/em> at atheism and agnosticism. We walked uphill in the snow &#8211; both ways! &#8211; to doubt the <i>cogito!<\/i> Nobody handed us disbelief on an hors d&#8217;oeuvre tray like these lazy brats you see nowadays, with their video games and their piercings!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes in the middle of some musings on the effects of Santa Clausery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My contemporary Jim Henley (alternate archive) reminisces: Dammit, when I was a boy we had to work at atheism and agnosticism. We walked uphill in the snow &#8211; both ways! &#8211; to doubt the cogito! Nobody handed us disbelief on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1553\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}