{"id":6945,"date":"2013-01-01T22:40:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T21:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2013-01-02T01:43:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T00:43:12","slug":"when-baseball-speaks-the-truth-about-god-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/when-baseball-speaks-the-truth-about-god-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"When Baseball speaks the truth about God and Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought that the one phrase to stick with me on New Year&#8217;s Day would be on the moral implications of God and Science as seen through the prisim of the MLB Hall of Fame vote?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No doubt, there is a little bit of projection going on; some writers harbor a bit of self-loathing at having been duped into mythologizing players who now appears to have been blessed more by science than by God (unless you attribute science to God, but we&#8217;ll save that discussion for another day).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/phillies\/Democracy-or-vigilante-justice-Baseball-says-steroids-should-not-be-a-consideration-for-writers-in-Hall-of-Fame-voting.html\">kicker on third base<\/a> right there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought that the one phrase to stick with me on New Year&#8217;s Day would be on the moral implications of God and Science as seen through the prisim of the MLB Hall of Fame vote? No doubt, there is a little bit of projection going on; some writers harbor a bit of self-loathing at having been duped into mythologizing players who now appears to have been blessed more by science than by God (unless you attribute science to God, but we&#8217;ll save that discussion for another day). That&#8217;s a kicker on third base right there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3926,25,24],"tags":[3931,3928,3929,2386,3927,3437,3930,3797],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-sports","category-link-log","category-sports","tag-barry-bonds","tag-god","tag-hall-of-fame","tag-mlb","tag-philosophy","tag-science","tag-steroids","tag-truth","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1O1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}