{"id":12964,"date":"2012-08-30T18:12:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T22:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12964"},"modified":"2012-08-30T18:12:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T22:12:05","slug":"because-all-the-good-acronyms-have-been-taken-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/08\/because-all-the-good-acronyms-have-been-taken-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Because all the good acronyms have been taken up"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>BOSTON (<a href=\"http:\/\/connecticut.cbslocal.com\/2012\/08\/30\/national-atheist-party-cancels-convention-due-to-lack-of-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS Connecticut<\/a>)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The National Atheist Party is canceling its secular convention due to a lack of funding. Troy Boyle, the party\u2019s president, announced on its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usanap.org\/news\/presidents-address-napcon-2012-cancellation.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>\u00a0won\u2019t be holding\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atheistnexus.org\/profiles\/blogs\/napcon-2012\" target=\"_blank\">NAPCON 2012<\/a>\u00a0in Boston in October because it would bankrupt the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter this year\u2019s amazing Reason Rally, and flush with our successful recruiting and a spike in donations, we decided to hold our OWN secular event. NAPCON 2012 was supposed to be our biggest and best public event; our chance to show the U.S. that we could fund and organize a large, noteworthy and impressive \u2018Secular Summit\u2019 that would attract media buzz and even more interested members and donations. The reality is that we can\u2019t,\u201d Boyle said in the press release. \u201cThe donations simply aren\u2019t there and if we went ahead with the event as planned, it would bankrupt us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second annual convention was supposed to consist of several speakers and musical acts over two days, as well as giving away free prizes to fellow atheists.<br \/>\nBoyle blames a lack of donations and sponsors, along with several prominent people backing out of the convention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There really should be an alliance between the Catholic Church and the National Atheist Party &#8211; we could call it CATNAP.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/krestaintheafternoon.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/national-atheist-party-cancels.html\" target=\"_blank\">Al Kresta<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (CBS Connecticut)\u00a0\u2014 The National Atheist Party is canceling its secular convention due to a lack of funding. Troy Boyle, the party\u2019s president, announced on its\u00a0website\u00a0won\u2019t be holding\u00a0NAPCON 2012\u00a0in Boston&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12967,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions\/12967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}