{"id":1170,"date":"2014-09-01T00:49:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T00:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2014-09-01T00:49:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T00:49:19","slug":"victor-stenger-has-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2014\/09\/01\/victor-stenger-has-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Stenger Has Passed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Stenger, the great physicist and atheist author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2014\/08\/29\/victor-stenger-physicist-and-prolific-atheist-author-is-dead-at-79\/\">passed away<\/a> this past Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>I met him briefly at Skepticon 3 years ago, and told him that his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1591026520\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1591026520&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ansingenbus-20&amp;linkId=RHWUQUWFRKUU7OPE\"><em>God the Failed Hypothesis<\/em><\/a> had a tremendous influence on me. In fact, I&#8217;d say that it was the first book I read of a critical nature about religion.<\/p>\n<p>Stenger will certainly be missed by the entire community of atheists and freethinkers, and his ideas and writings will live on for many years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Stenger, the great physicist and atheist author, passed away this past Wednesday. I met him briefly at Skepticon 3&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}