{"id":903,"date":"2006-11-05T16:16:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T21:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2006-12-21T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:22:02","slug":"freethinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Freethinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a pleasant couple hours this morning with Duluth&#8217;s Freethinkers. There were about 30 or so people in attendance. I gave a brief accounting of my background and answered questions for close to an hour and fifteen minutes. There was considerable interest in Bush&#8217;s trustworthiness over the Patriot Act and potential his Administration&#8217;s abuse of the 4th Amendment. We had a spirited debate about whether faith, in the religious sense, is a dangerous and corrosive force or simply a force that can easily be abused. I got lots of questions which I tried to address briefly but which always seemed to require a little long windedness.<\/p>\n<p>Mel, sent me an email afterward telling me he thought I did well, which probably means I didn&#8217;t embarasses him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a pleasant couple hours this morning with Duluth&#8217;s Freethinkers. There were about 30 or so people in attendance. I gave a brief&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harrys-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}