{"id":1947,"date":"2012-08-19T17:15:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2015-02-17T08:26:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T08:26:45","slug":"2012-08-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-08-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Luck, the \u201cNatural Lottery,\u201d and Mitt Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Jon Figdor (Humanist Chaplain at Stanford)<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">August 19, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1950\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1950\" title=\"2012-08-19-(27)-350-Jon-Fig\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2012-08-19-27-350-Jon-Fig.jpg\" width=\"253\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2012-08-19-27-350-Jon-Fig.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2012-08-19-27-350-Jon-Fig-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 85vw, 253px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Figdor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A child is born somewhere in America. Will she be born in a blue state, or red? Will she be born to a loving family, or into a family blighted by drug and alcohol abuse? Will she be born to a wealthy family, or into a family struggling to make ends meet? Questions like these will show how one\u2019s luck in the \u201cNatural Lottery,\u201d have strong influences on individuals \u2013 in essence, making them more or less likely to be successful. Join Humanist Chaplain at Stanford, Jon Figdor (B.A. Vassar College: Philosophy, M.Div. Harvard Divinity School) for a conversation about Moral Luck, the \u201cNatural Lottery,\u201d and Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/53055650\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/53055650\">Humanist Community Forum (2012-08-19): Moral Luck, the &ldquo;Natural Lottery&rdquo;, and Mitt Romney (Jon Figdor)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Figdor (Humanist Chaplain at Stanford) August 19, 2012 A child is born somewhere in America. Will she be born in a blue state, or red? Will she be born to a loving family, or into a family blighted by drug and alcohol abuse? Will she be born to a wealthy family, or into a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-08-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moral Luck, the \u201cNatural Lottery,\u201d and Mitt Romney&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7534,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/7534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}