{"id":4903,"date":"2010-06-02T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2010-06-02T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:19:08","slug":"center-for-inquiry-needs-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/center-for-inquiry-needs-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Inquiry Needs Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforinquiry.net\/\">Center for Inquiry<\/a> is a great organization &#8212; their mission is to &#8220;foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values,&#8221; which sounds like a good idea to me.  They sponsor a number of activities including lectures, education, conferences, and research.  I&#8217;ve given talks at the local branch, and it&#8217;s a great thrill to meet with such an engaged and enthusiastic audience.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re in a bit of trouble.  As a non-profit, they rely on donations, and their major donor seems to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforinquiry.net\/news\/fundraising_appeal\/\">mysteriously disappeared<\/a>.  About $800,000 of their annual operating budget is suddenly gone.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not going to make up for that with a few appeals on the internet, but we can help them adapt during a tough time.  Consider <a href=\"https:\/\/secure3.convio.net\/cfi\/site\/Donation2?1581.donation=form1&amp;df_id=1581\">donating<\/a>, even if it&#8217;s just a few bucks.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Inquiry is a great organization &#8212; their mission is to &#8220;foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values,&#8221; which sounds like a good idea to me. They sponsor a number of activities including lectures, education, conferences, and research. I&#8217;ve given talks at the local branch, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}