{"id":13421,"date":"2012-09-13T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T23:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=13421"},"modified":"2012-09-13T18:23:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T23:23:21","slug":"atheist-voices-of-minnesota-unplugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/atheist-voices-of-minnesota-unplugged\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist Voices of Minnesota, Unplugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you read, or at least acquired your copy of, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0615598579\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0615598579&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20\">Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0615598579\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>?  Just so you know, it is an anthology of (just like the title says) personal stories of individuals&#8217; journey to atheism.  And, those people are writing from a Minnesota perspective.  There are a lot of really great stories in the anthology, and a forward by Greta Christina.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this Sunday, at the Southdale Library in the Greater Minneapolis area (just south of the city), at the monthly Minnesota Atheist meeting, there will be a special event involving the reading out loud of portions of the book, by many of your favorite authors.  Among the readers, I believe, will be <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/pharyngula\">PZ Myers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/almostdiamonds\">Stephanie Zvan<\/a>.  Further details are <a href=\"http:\/\/mnatheists.org\/news-and-media\/news\/8-local-news\/774-september-16-a-date-with-the-authors\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although I never planned on doing the reading, I was thinking I&#8217;d go to this event, but it turns out that I can&#8217;t make it.  But I hope you do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you read, or at least acquired your copy of, Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories? Just so you know, it is an anthology of (just like the title says) personal stories of individuals&#8217; journey to atheism. And, those people are writing from a Minnesota perspective. There are a lot of really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/atheist-voices-of-minnesota-unplugged\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atheist Voices of Minnesota, Unplugged<\/span> <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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3ut","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}