{"id":2824,"date":"2014-09-10T21:51:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T02:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2014-09-10T21:51:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T02:51:33","slug":"rob-boston-is-coming-to-okc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/09\/10\/rob-boston-is-coming-to-okc\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Boston is coming to OKC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most of us, secularism is an avocation, the sort of activism that we do on the side whenever we get the chance, like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Americans United folks representing for secularism&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/D4M10N?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@D4M10N<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGiantAtheist?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AGiantAtheist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/6z9oP1jHB2\">pic.twitter.com\/6z9oP1jHB2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FreeOK (@OfficialFreeOK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialFreeOK\/status\/498217020895547392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A select few, however, get the opportunity to dedicate themselves to secularism for their entire\u00a0career, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rob_Boston\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Boston<\/a> is one of those chosen few. He has been in the trenches fighting the religious right since 1987, and his expertise in the field is only rarely rivaled, as I discovered for myself when we <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oklahomaatheists.com\/2014\/09\/podcast-106-rob-boston.html\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed him recently<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OklahomaAtheistsGodcast\" target=\"_blank\">Godcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/09\/Rob_Boston.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2825\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/09\/Rob_Boston.gif\" alt=\"Rob_Boston\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m particularly pleased to announce that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.au.org\/get-involved\/events\/rob-boston-talks-taking-liberties-with-the-okc-chapter\" target=\"_blank\">Rob will be\u00a0speaking<\/a> at the annual membership meeting for our local chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constitution_Day_(United_States)\" target=\"_blank\">Constitution Day<\/a>, exactly one week hence. If you happen to be in Oklahoma, here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1495476004022667\/\" target=\"_blank\">event page on Facebook<\/a>. If not, we will upload the talk, assuming that proves possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of us, secularism is an avocation, the sort of activism that we do on the side whenever we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,42,32,10,11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-conferences","category-oklahoma","category-politics","category-movement","category-theocracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}