{"id":5288,"date":"2012-05-05T07:59:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T12:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2012-05-05T07:59:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T12:59:26","slug":"our-book-is-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/05\/our-book-is-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Our book is in the news!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check it out. Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories<\/a>\"\" is an anthology that includes a lot of your favorite bloggers, including several from here on FTB. A local paper (I assume it’s a paper, I only see it on the web) covered it:<\/p>\n

Farmington man helps atheists find a voice<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s not always easy being a nonbeliever. In a society where personal faith is still important to many, people who identify themselves as atheists often worry how they\u2019ll be perceived if friends, family or employers find out they don\u2019t believe in God……<\/p>\n

Bill ….[has] been active in the Minnesota atheist community for the past three years, but there are still members of his family he wouldn\u2019t want to know about his lack of faith. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…um … Bill … <\/p>\n

Last year he founded a publishing company, Freethought House, specifically to publish a collection of essays by Minnesota atheists. Money from sales of the book, called Atheist Voices of Minnesota, will benefit the group Minnesota Atheists.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve gotten a lot out of this community,\u201d said Lehto, who got involved with local atheists through a group on networking website meetup.com. \u201cThis is kind of a way for me to do something for the community that uses my skills and knowledge. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s been anything done like this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so on and so forth. Check it out. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check it out. Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories is an anthology that includes a lot of your favorite bloggers, including several from here on FTB. A local paper (I assume it’s a paper, I only see it on the web) covered it: Farmington man helps atheists find a voice It\u2019s not … Continue reading Our book is in the news!<\/span> →<\/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\/p5fhV1-1ni","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288"}],"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=5288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}