{"id":386,"date":"2008-12-24T07:35:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T12:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2008-12-24T07:35:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T12:35:06","slug":"a-very-dawkins-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/24\/a-very-dawkins-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A very Dawkins Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this up on Facebook, just now, but I thought I&#8217;d share it here. There&#8217;s an article in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-1100842\/Why-I-celebrate-Christmas-worlds-famous-atheist.html\"> Daily Mail<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/richarddawkins.net\/\">Richard Dawkins<\/a> and why he celebrates Christmas&#8230;and this popped into my addled, early-morning brain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Okay, this needs work, but I haven&#8217;t had coffee yet&#8230;<br \/>\nLets Have A Richard Dawkins Christmas<br \/>\n(apologies to Mike Nelson)<\/p>\n<p>Open up your heart and let the Richard Dawkins Christmas in.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll settle your God delusions while drinking lots of gin.<br \/>\nAnd Santa Claus is just a silly meme done up all in red<br \/>\nPropagating like selfish genes to pass along &#8216;fore we&#8217;re dead.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, let&#8217;s have a Richard Dawkins Christmas this year!<br \/>\nOr Darwin&#8217;s Rotteweiler will bite you in the rear!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s survival of the fittest this Christmas, you better get busy<br \/>\nFind a mate to propagate, and replicate &#8217;till you get dizzy!<br \/>\nI got the word a creationist was sneaking ID into class.<br \/>\nSo old Dicky opened a can of reductionist whoop-ass, ohh,<\/p>\n<p>Oh, let&#8217;s have a Richard Dawkins Christmas, one and all.<br \/>\nAnd this can be the rockinest&#8230;<br \/>\nNot afraid to be the shockinest&#8230;<br \/>\nThis can be the Dawkinest<br \/>\nChristmas of them aaallllllllll! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this up on Facebook, just now, but I thought I&#8217;d share it here. There&#8217;s an article in the Daily Mail about Richard Dawkins and why he celebrates Christmas&#8230;and this popped into my addled, early-morning brain: Okay, this needs work, but I haven&#8217;t had coffee yet&#8230; Lets Have A Richard Dawkins Christmas (apologies to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-thoughts","category-sciencegeek-porn","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-6e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}