{"id":293,"date":"2010-01-08T22:06:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T04:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=293"},"modified":"2010-01-16T09:05:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T15:05:45","slug":"hosting-a-show-colors-for-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2010\/01\/hosting-a-show-colors-for-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosting a Show &#8211; Colors for Causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>07 January 2010<\/strong><br \/>\nI hosted <em>Atheists Talk<\/em> again. It was my 11th time hosting, though my first time since August. The taping consists of two half hour shows; usually they&#8217;re related in some way, but tonight they were not. For the first show, I interviewed Mike Davis regarding his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Atheists-Bible-Companion-Testament-Contradictions\/dp\/1432748645\">The Atheists Bible Companion to the New Testament<\/a>. I received a copy of his book nearly two months ago, with the idea that I was supposed to read it and write a review of it. While reading it one night, I flipped to the &#8220;about the author&#8221; section and discovered he lived right here in the Twin Cities. So I looked him up online and emailed him to see if he&#8217;d like to be interviewed on the show.<br \/>\nI finally met him tonight, and I think he had as good of a time as I did, despite the fact that there were technical difficulties with the microphones, and we ended up sitting on stage chatting for about a half hour while we waited. There was so much interesting information to cover, I was scrambling to wrap it up in a half hour. I like when that happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>08 January 2010<\/strong><br \/>\nToday I noticed a bunch of women on Facebook were updating their status by simply stating a color. After reading enough comments, I figured out that this was the color of the bra they were wearing. After further research, I learned that this was to raise breast cancer awareness. I think showing support for causes is all well and good, but in this particular case, I fail to see how a statement so vague as &#8220;red&#8221; or &#8220;white&#8221; could serve any purpose other than baffling one&#8217;s Facebook friends. I think a more productive method would be to post a fact about cancer or cancer prevention, or perhaps supply a link to a site where people can learn more or donate.<br \/>\nToday also happens to be my Dad and Stepmom&#8217;s 10 year anniversary. I hope they had a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07 January 2010 I hosted Atheists Talk again. It was my 11th time hosting, though my first time since August. The taping consists of two half hour shows; usually they&#8217;re related in some way, but tonight they were not. For the first show, I interviewed Mike Davis regarding his new book The Atheists Bible Companion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}