{"id":797,"date":"2008-01-28T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2009-05-13T21:20:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T20:20:15","slug":"godless-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/01\/godless-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"What would a godless religion look like? Like this maybe&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">T<\/span>he closing session at the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">World Economic Forum<\/span> in Davos was by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminzander.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Benjamin Zander<\/span><\/a>. If you ever wondered what a secular sermon would sound like (it was Sunday morning), then it would probably go a little like this.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s quite a schtick (72 minutes in all), but when Zander finished there was barely a dry eye in the house*:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vtww4qUrFC0&amp;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vtww4qUrFC0&amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>*<span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Except your correspondent, introduced by an old college acquaintance as &#8211; \u201cthe most cynical man I\u2019ve ever met.\u201d I wasn\u2019t supposed to take it as a compliment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closing session at the World Economic Forum in Davos was by Benjamin Zander. If you ever wondered what a secular sermon would sound like (it was Sunday morning), then it would probably go a little like this. It\u2019s quite a schtick (72 minutes in all), but when Zander finished there was barely a dry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}