{"id":4900,"date":"2015-12-08T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=4900"},"modified":"2015-12-08T18:47:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T18:47:43","slug":"crackingnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2015\/12\/08\/crackingnight\/","title":{"rendered":"#CrackingNight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I had the absolute pleasure of talking to <a href=\"http:\/\/barnsley.skepticsinthepub.org\" target=\"_blank\">Barnsley Skeptics in the Pub<\/a> last night in their &#8220;Skeptic Dungeon&#8221; &#8211; a lovely cellar bar venue below a pub in Barnsley city centre. The topic for the night was The Nativity (about which I have written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Nativity-A-Critical-Examination\/dp\/0956694853\/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=atipplingphil-20&amp;linkCode=w01&amp;linkId=IJIMGJX2DWKAMFJK&amp;creativeASIN=0956694853\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2013\/02\/25\/some-reflection-on-my-nativity-debate-with-randal-rauser\/\" target=\"_blank\">debated<\/a>\u00a0with Canadian theologian Randal Rauser). I managed to make the talk fun and enjoyable, apparently, and the Q and A kept to form with my last dozen Q and As &#8211; long and going round the houses, yet somehow seemingly connected and relevant, involving great\u00a0input from the audience. All that made, by all accounts, for a great night. Indeed, some\u00a0tweets included the hashtag #CrackingNight, so it must have been alright! The talk went on to the pub upstairs, and then to another pub, and then back to my hotel but&#8230; the bar was closed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All told, a lovely night with some truly lovely people. I had forgotten, having been at uni in Leeds, how wonderful the North is. I mean, it&#8217;s still grim and all, but the people are great&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It appears I might be back to Barnsley for my free will talk if they hold to their word and my other half agrees to the long journey and overnight stay!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As ever, let me know if your group needs a speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the absolute pleasure of talking to Barnsley Skeptics in the Pub last night in their &#8220;Skeptic Dungeon&#8221; &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[1827,238,197],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking-engagements","tag-barnsley-skeptics-in-the-pub","tag-the-nativity-2","tag-the-nativity-a-critical-examination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}