{"id":6363,"date":"2014-06-23T04:50:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T04:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=6363"},"modified":"2014-08-15T02:13:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T02:13:25","slug":"2014-07-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-07-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Lawrence Pratt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-07-13\/\">Dark Deception<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Lawrence Pratt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-07-13\/\">Lawrence Pratt<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Lawrence Pratt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-07-13\/\">July 13, 2014<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Lawrence Pratt will discuss his recent novel &#8220;Dark Deception&#8221;, which deals with the struggle of the individual against &#8220;tribal&#8221; pressures to conform and obey when the individual mind wants to choose another path. Dark Deception is a fictional adaptation of the events that led the author and his wife from dedicated members of an authoritarian faith to complete atheism, and could easily be subtitled &#8220;How Religion Turned Us to Atheism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/103350250\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/103350250\">Humanist Community Forum (2014-07-13): Dark Deception (The Individual versus the Tribe)<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/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>Dark Deception Lawrence Pratt July 13, 2014 Lawrence Pratt will discuss his recent novel &#8220;Dark Deception&#8221;, which deals with the struggle of the individual against &#8220;tribal&#8221; pressures to conform and obey when the individual mind wants to choose another path. Dark Deception is a fictional adaptation of the events that led the author and his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-07-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dark Deception&#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":[52,214,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363"}],"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=6363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}