{"id":33425,"date":"2021-06-23T18:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33425"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T23:05:25","slug":"quote-of-the-day-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/23\/quote-of-the-day-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I was a cub reporter, my city editor was an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._L._Mencken\">H.L. Mencken<\/a> clone who laughed at Bible-thumping hillbilly preachers. One day, as a young truth-seeker, I asked him: You&#8217;re correct that their explanations are fairy tales, but what answer can an honest person give about the deep questions: Why are we here? Why is the universe here? Why do we die? Is there any purpose to life? He eyed me and replied: You can say: I don&#8217;t know. That rang a bell in my head that still echoes. It&#8217;s honest to admit that you cannot explain the unexplainable. &#8211; James A. Haught, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daylightatheism\/2021\/03\/the-long-slow-death-of-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Long, Slow Death of Religion<\/a><em>,&#8221; <strong>Daylight Atheism<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure wish I could have met that editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a cub reporter, my city editor was an H.L. Mencken clone who laughed at Bible-thumping hillbilly preachers. One day, as a young truth-seeker, I asked him: You&#8217;re correct that their explanations are fairy tales, but what answer can an honest person give about the deep questions: Why \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/23\/quote-of-the-day-23\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33426,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33425\/revisions\/33426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}