{"id":2721,"date":"2008-03-25T13:27:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T18:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/03\/25\/i-have-been-and-remain-an-atheist\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T13:27:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T18:27:18","slug":"i-have-been-and-remain-an-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/03\/i-have-been-and-remain-an-atheist\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;I have been and remain an atheist&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">It is not exactly to my credit that I<br \/>\nfound the Gobachev &#8220;secret Christian&#8221; story to be fishy, <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/article\/20080324\/31660_Gorbachev_Dispels_%27Closet_Christian%27_Rumors%3B_Says_He_is_Atheist.htm\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">but &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev<br \/>\nmade clear this past weekend that he is an atheist after European news<br \/>\nagencies last week claimed that he had confirmed his Christian faith<br \/>\nduring a visit to the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the last few days some media have been disseminating fantasies \ufffd<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t use any other word \ufffd about my secret Catholicism, citing my<br \/>\nvisit to the Sacro Convento friary, where the remains of St. Francis of<br \/>\nAssisi lie,&#8221; Gorbachev said, according to an Interfax article posted<br \/>\nFriday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To sum up and avoid any misunderstandings, let me say that I have been<br \/>\nand remain an atheist,\ufffd he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not exactly to my credit that I found the Gobachev &#8220;secret Christian&#8221; story to be fishy, but &#8230; Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev made clear this past weekend&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","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=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}