{"id":3807,"date":"2016-03-14T18:11:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T23:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:16:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:16:56","slug":"orbit-launches-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/03\/14\/orbit-launches-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orbit Launches Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/D4M10N\/the-orbit\" target=\"_blank\">Awhile back<\/a>, I mentioned that there appeared to be a new blog network dedicated to atheism plus social justice on the horizon. Today,\u00a0it appears that this project has finally come to fruition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/greta\/2016\/03\/14\/farewell\/\">Greta Christina moves to The Orbit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/almostdiamonds\/2016\/03\/14\/moving-day-2\/\">Stephanie Zvan moves to The Orbit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/brutereason\/2016\/03\/14\/brute-reason-is-moving\/\">Miri Mogilevsky moves to The Orbit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/ashleymiller\/2016\/03\/14\/thank-you-freethoughtblogs\/\">Ashley Miller moves to The Orbit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/biodork\/2016\/03\/14\/orbiting\/\">Brianne Bilyeu moves to The Orbit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/lousycanuck\/2016\/03\/14\/farewell-freethought-blogs\/\">Jason Thibeault moves to The Orbit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/zinniajones\/2016\/03\/were-on-the-move-our-new-home-at-the-orbit\/\">Zinnia Jones moves to The Orbit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/entequilaesverdad\/2016\/03\/14\/new-beginnings\/#more-26421\" target=\"_blank\">Dana Hunter moves to The Orbit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I expect this will end exactly\u00a0as badly as the Atheism Plus experiment did, and for roughly the same reasons. However\u2014in a bout of irrational optimism\u2014I am sincerely hoping that it does not. Online atheism requires a robust diversity of opinion, and even if most of these individuals happen to disagree with that proposition, they nevertheless add thereto.<\/p>\n<p>You can find their Kickstarter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1033564734\/help-launch-the-orbit\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awhile back, I mentioned that there appeared to be a new blog network dedicated to atheism plus social justice on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","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=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}