{"id":8406,"date":"2019-07-15T00:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T05:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8406"},"modified":"2019-07-13T16:59:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T21:59:34","slug":"mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8406","title":{"rendered":"MORTALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is the second book I&#8217;ve read by the happy atheistic gadfly, Christopher Hitchens.\u00a0 His writing is beautiful, funny, and makes you think, even, perhaps especially, when you disagree with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This was his last book.\u00a0 He was dying of esophageal cancer. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read to find out how an atheist can have better theology than the silly notions of too many Christians.\u00a0 Read for the enjoyment of engaging great writing.\u00a0 Read to consider what kind of friend you want to be to your atheist friends.\u00a0 I hope you have some!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mortality\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_rkxRimyDx4dqQZ&#038;asin=1455502766&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second book I&#8217;ve read by the happy atheistic gadfly, Christopher Hitchens.\u00a0 His writing is beautiful, funny, and makes you think, even, perhaps especially, when you disagree with him. This was his last book.\u00a0 He was dying of esophageal cancer. \u00a0 Read to find out how an atheist can have better theology than [&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":[59,43,49,14,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-christianity","category-death","category-suffering","category-theology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406","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=8406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8408,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406\/revisions\/8408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}