{"id":1534,"date":"2009-10-10T09:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2009-10-10T09:59:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T14:59:12","slug":"happy-birthday-or-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/10\/happy-birthday-or-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday&#8230; or Anniversary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks one year since Craig and I first started Rationality Now with a post linking to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/christopher-hitchens-debates-boteach\/\">debate between Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach<\/a>. Since then we&#8217;ve grown in both knowledge and readership and I wanted to sincerely thank all of our current and former readers who have helped make this past year of blogging a great experience.<\/p>\n<p>As if they actually knew, a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness showed up at my front doorstep around 9:30 am. My wife answered the door because I was sleeping in so I missed the opportunity to chat with him. It&#8217;s actually the first time in my almost fourteen years of living here that someone has stopped by while I was at home&#8230; and I missed it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure he was going to say Happy Birthday&#8230; or Happy Anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Which is it, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks one year since Craig and I first started Rationality Now with a post linking to a debate between Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Since then we&#8217;ve grown in both knowledge and readership and I wanted to sincerely thank all of our current and former readers who have helped make this past year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/10\/happy-birthday-or-anniversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8230; or Anniversary?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[63,123,451,666],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-anniversary","tag-birthday","tag-jehovahs-witness","tag-rationality-now","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}