{"id":273,"date":"2012-12-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/?p=273"},"modified":"2012-12-23T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T15:18:08","slug":"thursday-with-bertrand-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/2012\/12\/27\/thursday-with-bertrand-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday with Bertrand Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, had I encountered Russell earlier in my life!<\/p>\n<p>This is from &#8220;My Religious Reminiscences&#8221; (1938):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My childhood was solitary, as my brother was seven years older than I was, and I was not sent to school. Consequently, I had abundant leisure for reflection, and when I was about fourteen my thoughts turned to theology. During the four following years I rejected, successively, free will, immortality, and belief in God, and believed that I suffered much pain in the process, though when it was completed I found myself far happier than I had been while I remained in doubt. I think, in retrospect, that loneliness had much more to do with my unhappiness then theological difficulties, for throughout the whole time I never said a word about to religion to anyone, with the brief exception of an Agnostic tutor, who was soon sent away, presumably because he did not discourage my unorthodoxy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from &#8220;My Religious Reminiscences&#8221; (1938).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bertrand-russell","tag-intellectual-heroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}