{"id":2923,"date":"2013-01-13T06:23:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T06:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2015-02-18T08:18:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:18:11","slug":"2013-01-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2013-01-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother Sam in Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Brother Sam<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Sam Singleton, Atheist Evangelist<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">(Roger Scott Jackson)<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">January 13, 2013<\/font><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2925\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/brother-sam\/2013-01-13-350-brother-sam\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2925\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2925\" alt=\"Brother Sam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-13-350-Brother-Sam.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-13-350-Brother-Sam.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-13-350-Brother-Sam-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 85vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brother Sam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sam Singleton, Atheist Evangelist:\u00a0 Writer-actor Roger Scott Jackson\u2019s satiric\u00a0 Sam Singleton is a comedic character, not a comedian. His shows are best\u00a0 described as one-person theater pieces with audience participation. The 2012\u00a0 premiere of Cats, Sheep and Goats: The Taxonomy of Atheists, Believers and\u00a0 Preachers marks his fifth work in as many years.<\/p>\n<p>Those with strong views on the existence or nonexistence of God may see what\u00a0 Brother Sam does as activism, though he insists that his aim is simply to get\u00a0 some stuff off his chest. He says, \u201cSomebody else, who had to deal with snake- handling tongues-speakers as a child, might become a\u00a0 homicidal maniac or a teacher at a Bible College. I talk to the world&#8217;s most\u00a0 astute ticket-buyers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information check the web site:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brother Sam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samsingleton.com\/About.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.samsingleton.com\/About.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Sam Sam Singleton, Atheist Evangelist (Roger Scott Jackson) January 13, 2013 Sam Singleton, Atheist Evangelist:\u00a0 Writer-actor Roger Scott Jackson\u2019s satiric\u00a0 Sam Singleton is a comedic character, not a comedian. His shows are best\u00a0 described as one-person theater pieces with audience participation. The 2012\u00a0 premiere of Cats, Sheep and Goats: The Taxonomy of Atheists, Believers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2013-01-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brother Sam in Silicon Valley&#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":[52,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923"}],"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=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7588,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}