{"id":8624,"date":"2013-07-19T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/19\/hitchens-on-conversion\/"},"modified":"2013-07-19T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T14:58:05","slug":"hitchens-on-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/19\/hitchens-on-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchens on Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Christopher Hitchens, <em>Mortality<\/em>, Twelve, 2012, p. 91:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If I convert it&#39;s because it&#39;s better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Witty unto the end.&#0160; But in the end, what does wit get you?&#0160;One last vain flash of brilliance and then extinction &#8212; or judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens, Mortality, Twelve, 2012, p. 91: If I convert it&#39;s because it&#39;s better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. Witty unto the end.&#0160; But in the end, what does wit get you?&#0160;One last vain flash of brilliance and then extinction &#8212; or judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,184,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-death-and-immortality","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}