{"id":4587,"date":"2012-06-19T12:26:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2012-06-19T12:26:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:26:41","slug":"jref-welcomes-new-communications-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/jref-welcomes-new-communications-director\/","title":{"rendered":"JREF Welcomes New Communications Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The James Randi Educational Foundation, which does important work on behalf of skepticism and education, has been without a communications director for a while now, but has just announced the appointment of Carrie Poppy to that position.  From a blog post by DJ Grothe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am pleased to share some exciting news straight from the James Randi Educational Foundation, and to introduce you to the newest member of our team, Carrie Poppy. After months of searching and interviews, we are thrilled to have Carrie join us. She has been involved in the non-profit world for several years, and has worked on many successful campaigns in LGBTQ rights, animal protection, and skepticism, a cause about which she is especially passionate. I asked Carrie a few questions from our brand new offices in the heart of Hollywood, California. (Open house details to be announced in the weeks ahead; stay tuned!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randi.org\/site\/index.php\/swift-blog\/1748-dj-grothe.html\">The rest of the post is an interview with Carrie. <\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Everything I&#8217;ve heard about Carrie Poppy is pretty positive, often glowing.  The PETA link is interesting; if you&#8217;ve followed my commentary on &#8220;animal rights&#8221; you&#8217;ll know that I have a  very pro-animal rights mixed with anti-animal rights set of views.  And in between.  Maybe that&#8217;s a topic we should bring up again in the near future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Randi Educational Foundation, which does important work on behalf of skepticism and education, has been without a communications director for a while now, but has just announced the appointment of Carrie Poppy to that position. From a blog post by DJ Grothe: I am pleased to share some exciting news straight from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/jref-welcomes-new-communications-director\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JREF Welcomes New Communications Director<\/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\/p5fhV1-1bZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587"}],"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=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}