{"id":4549,"date":"2008-05-18T04:04:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T08:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2008-08-22T16:10:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T20:10:37","slug":"you-should-write-more-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/05\/you-should-write-more-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"You Should Write More Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You never know what they&#8217;ll be worth someday: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/17\/science\/17einsteinw.html?em&#038;ex=1211169600&#038;en=ce2871d219de27ee&#038;ei=5087%0A\">Einstein Letter on God Sells for $404,000<\/a>.&#8221;  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The auction attracted immense interest, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2008\/may\/16\/peopleinscience.controversiesinscience\">a bid by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins<\/a>.  Strange that it is this letter, in which Einstein voices rather dismissive views about religion and the Bible,  which has generated all this interest, not a letter on one of his remarkable insights into theoretical physics.<\/p>\n<p>One of Einstein&#8217;s more famous observations was that &#8220;God doesn&#8217;t play dice.&#8221;  He was expressing his unhappiness with the implications of quantum mechanics rather than commenting on God, but perhaps his willingness to use divine metaphors in his public statements about physics may help explain his unusual popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never know what they&#8217;ll be worth someday: &#8220;Einstein Letter on God Sells for $404,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}