{"id":299,"date":"2007-06-24T12:32:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T16:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2007-06-24T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T16:32:39","slug":"there-is-no-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"There is no God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/images\/MK-AK548_HITCHE_20070621210036.gif\">chart<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article_print\/SB118247644823044329.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> showing that Richard Dawkins has sold half a million <em>hardback<\/em> copies of <em>The God Delusion,<\/em> and Hitchens may have made a million dollars from selling 300,000 copies of <em>his<\/em> book. Poor old Dennett is trailing in at 64,000 copies &#8212; probably because he is the only one to have approached the subject with anything like an open mind or any interest in other people&#8217;s opinions. If the New Atheist movement were actually about reasoned enquiry, and distrust of authority these proportions would be pretty much reversed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick chart from the Wall Street Journal showing that Richard Dawkins has sold half a million hardback copies of The God Delusion, and Hitchens may have made a million dollars from selling 300,000 copies of his book. Poor old Dennett &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=299\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=299\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}