{"id":27309,"date":"2009-10-13T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T12:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/13\/why-i-want-to-read-chesley-sul\/"},"modified":"2009-10-13T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T12:54:47","slug":"why-i-want-to-read-chesley-sul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/13\/why-i-want-to-read-chesley-sul\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I want to read Chesley Sullenberger&#8217;s book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chesley Sullenberger is the pilot who successfully crash-landed his plane in the Hudson River after both engines were lost to goose strikes.  His book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061924687?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0061924687\">Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters<\/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=0061924687\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, is out today.<\/p>\n<p>A while ago he was asked at which point he started praying as the plain went down.  He said &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230; that he was not praying, but rather, concentrating on how to land the plane safely.<\/p>\n<p>The writeup of his book and the publicity does not talk about god or prayer, despite the fact that this event is constantly being called &#8220;The Miracle on the Hudson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, I would like to know if Sully is an atheist, or at least, if god is mentioned at all in this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chesley Sullenberger is the pilot who successfully crash-landed his plane in the Hudson River after both engines were lost to goose strikes. His book, Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, is out today. A while ago he was asked at which point he started praying as the plain went down. He said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-76t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27309"}],"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=27309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}