{"id":893,"date":"2006-12-07T08:37:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T08:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/07\/the-av-club-on-dawkins\/"},"modified":"2006-12-07T08:37:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T08:37:11","slug":"the-av-club-on-dawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/07\/the-av-club-on-dawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"The AV  Club on Dawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>The Onion AV Club<\/cite> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/node\/56193\">review of <cite>The God Delusion<\/cite><\/a> this week. &#8220;Big deal, &#8221; you say, &#8220;Who cares what a humor magazine thinks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found in recent years, though, that the AV Club is one of the most consistent sources of reviews of movies, music, and books out there. They&#8217;re sharp, they get right to the point (reviews are seldom more than a few paragraphs), and they&#8217;re a reliable predictor of my reaction to a book, record, or movie.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a three-paragraph review, so it would seem cheap to quote it at length, but here are the opening sentences:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Without a doubt, contributing to the public understanding of science is a noble pursuit. Confirming the public suspicion that scientists are arrogant, pedantic know-it-alls who want to root out every vestige of mystery and religious awe from society&#8211;well, that&#8217;s collateral damage caused by the way Richard Dawkins goes about this noble pursuit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing. You might also check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/node\/49630\">list of classic movies it&#8217;s ok to hate<\/a>, while you&#8217;re over there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion AV Club has a review of The God Delusion this week. &#8220;Big deal, &#8221; you say, &#8220;Who cares what a humor magazine thinks?&#8221; I&#8217;ve found in recent years, though, that the AV Club is one of the most consistent sources of reviews of movies, music, and books out there. They&#8217;re sharp, they get&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/07\/the-av-club-on-dawkins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The AV  Club on Dawkins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}