{"id":519,"date":"2003-11-04T08:34:33","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T08:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=519"},"modified":"2003-11-04T08:34:33","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T08:34:33","slug":"philip-dark-materials-pullman-on-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/519","title":{"rendered":"Philip &#8220;Dark Materials&#8221; Pullman on Halloween."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little behind on this one, but it&#8217;s still worth reading: Philip Pullman, author of the astonishingly good &#8220;His Dark Materials&#8221; series, published a <i>New York Times<\/i> editorial called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/31\/opinion\/31PULL.html\">Why I Don&#8217;t Believe in Ghosts<\/a> on Halloween which is both entertaining and of high value to those of us still stuck in the clench between reason and imagination.  Thanks, Philip.<br \/>\n(And, more personally and more importantly, and I believe more effectively, <i>thank you Kate.<\/i>  But that&#8217;s another story.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little behind on this one, but it&#8217;s still worth reading: Philip Pullman, author of the astonishingly good &#8220;His Dark Materials&#8221; series, published a New York Times editorial called Why I Don&#8217;t Believe in Ghosts on Halloween which is both entertaining and of high value to those of us still stuck in the clench [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-8n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}