{"id":5328,"date":"2013-11-30T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2014-01-16T12:54:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T12:54:01","slug":"2013-12-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2013-12-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\">Human Nature: Genetic Propensities and Symbolic Language<\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\">Arthur Jackson<\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><b>December 22, 2013<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4373\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4373\" alt=\"Arthur Jackson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/2013-08-04-Arthur-Jackson-200.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arthur Jackson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Drawing from his 2011 book, <i>How to Live the Good Life: A User\u2019s Guide for Modern Humans,<\/i> author Arthur Jackson will discuss \u201chuman nature.\u201d \u00a0His work is considered seminal to understanding why people do what they do.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, a long-time Humanist activist,\u00a0 served as Assistant Director of the American Humanist Association (1965-69). Coordinated activities for Humanist Celebrants who serve as alternatives to Ministers, Priests, and Rabbis as well as AHA\u2019s chapter program; was Editorial Associate <em>The Humanist<\/em>magazine (1965-69); chaired the International Humanist &amp; Ethical Union\u2019s Working Party on Humanist Counseling (1968-78);\u00a0 developed a model AHA Humanist chapter and served as full time Executive Director of the Humanist Community of San Jose (HCSJ) (1969-76); and sponsored a humanist group at Soledad State Prison (1970-73).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/83617510\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Nature: Genetic Propensities and Symbolic Language Arthur Jackson December 22, 2013 &nbsp; Drawing from his 2011 book, How to Live the Good Life: A User\u2019s Guide for Modern Humans, author Arthur Jackson will discuss \u201chuman nature.\u201d \u00a0His work is considered seminal to understanding why people do what they do. Jackson, a long-time Humanist activist,\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2013-12-22\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arthur Jackson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[46,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328"}],"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=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5955,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}