{"id":1342,"date":"2016-04-12T02:11:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T02:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2016-04-12T02:11:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T02:11:04","slug":"things-to-check-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2016\/04\/12\/things-to-check-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to Check Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there have been two articles published about fiction in ancient history that are worth reading: Neil Godfrey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/vridar.org\/2016\/04\/05\/did-josephus-fabricate-the-origins-of-the-jewish-rebellion-against-rome\/\">Did Josephus Fabricate the Origins of the Jewish Rebellion Against Rome?<\/a> and Matthew Ferguson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/adversusapologetica.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/07\/allegorical-characters-with-common-names-in-the-alexander-romance-and-the-gospels\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Allegorical Characters with Common Names in the Alexander Romance and the Gospels<\/span><\/u><\/a>. Both of them do a superb job of discussing and relaying what scholarship has discovered (and is continuing to discover) about the ancient context in which the gospels were written.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested: You can participate in Bernie Sanders&#8217; campaign from home by calling people about the campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/go.berniesanders.com\/page\/content\/phonebank\">Click here to get started!<\/a>\u00a0Also: your local campaign center could always use more people. Here in my own state (Arizona) our primary is over, but we are not done: I know that we are about to undertake some campaigning efforts in California, for example. Point being: there&#8217;s always a way to participate, and it is worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/04\/09\/its-amazing-what-america-could-do-with-the-money-the-rich-hide-overseas\/\">It&#8217;s amazing what America could do with the money the rich hide overseas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there have been two articles published about fiction in ancient history that are worth reading: Neil Godfrey&#8217;s Did Josephus&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-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","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=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}