{"id":12315,"date":"2011-03-20T22:08:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T02:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12315"},"modified":"2011-03-20T22:08:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T02:08:37","slug":"richard-dawkins-adulation-is-there-no-end-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-adulation-is-there-no-end-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins adulation: is there no end to it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26, 2010, I posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MHDCAllQgS0&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> on Youtube of Richard Dawkins explaining how the \u201cgay gene\u201d was preserved. I posted it only because on the site I used to house Anglican Samizdat, the only video I could embed was from Youtube. And I wanted to point out how preposterous Dawkins\u2019 remarks were.<\/p>\n<p>Now, just under a year later, the video has had 26,174 views, 327 comments and 209 \u201clikes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s popularity has persuaded Youtube to invite me to make money by including advertising with the video.<\/p>\n<p>My attempt to expose Dawkins\u2019 culturally induced banalities seems to have earned him yet more sycophants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26, 2010, I posted a video on Youtube of Richard Dawkins explaining how the \u201cgay gene\u201d was preserved. I posted it only because on the site I used to house Anglican Samizdat, the only video I could embed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/richard-dawkins-adulation-is-there-no-end-to-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[783,2238,1658],"class_list":["post-12315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-dawkins","tag-gay-gene","tag-richard-dawkins","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}