{"id":6094,"date":"2016-03-16T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6094"},"modified":"2016-03-14T13:19:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:19:43","slug":"conspiracy-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6094","title":{"rendered":"CONSPIRACY NUTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I regularly read the blog posts of the eminent, New Testament scholar, Larry Hurtado.\u00a0 His blog can be found here: https:\/\/larryhurtado.wordpress.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a recent post on the death of Umberto Eco, Hurtado reflects on one of Eco&#8217;s books:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The book is fundamentally (it seems to me) an extended \u201csend-up\u201d of people who itch after exotic, esoteric stuff, disdaining what they view as simple notions, and conspiracy addicts (who, for example, insist that the moon landings took place on a Hollywood stage), the sort of people who mistake Dan Brown\u2019s <em>Da Vinci Code<\/em> as anything other than an easy \u201cbeach read.\u201d\u00a0 (I\u2019m told that Eco was once asked what he thought of Brown\u2019s book, and he replied, \u201cDan Brown is a character in <em>Foucault\u2019s Pendulum<\/em>!\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly read the blog posts of the eminent, New Testament scholar, Larry Hurtado.\u00a0 His blog can be found here: https:\/\/larryhurtado.wordpress.com. In a recent post on the death of Umberto Eco, Hurtado reflects on one of Eco&#8217;s books: The book is fundamentally (it seems to me) an extended \u201csend-up\u201d of people who itch after exotic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspirarcy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094\/revisions\/6097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}