{"id":354,"date":"2007-05-16T22:00:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T02:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/05\/16\/foratv-sharpton-v-hitchens\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T22:02:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T02:02:38","slug":"foratv-sharpton-v-hitchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/05\/16\/foratv-sharpton-v-hitchens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fora.tv: Sharpton v. Hitchens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I added a link to Fora.tv.  I regret not doing more to promote them &#8211; they&#8217;ve really done an excellent job of covering and making available all sorts of interesting intellectual events that would otherwise have gone unnoticed.  So it shames me, to a certain extent, that it&#8217;s  something of a tabloid event that brings me to link them again.  Here is the Rev. Al Sharpton v. Christopher Hitchens debate on the existence of a divine being:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sigh.  Easy embedding is apparently a 2008 technology.  So click <a href=\"http:\/\/fora.tv\/fora\/showthread.php?t=1007\">here<\/a> for the video.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s really quite entertaining, as you might expect.  Both Sharpton and Hitchens possess abilities far beyond their varying causes, and that&#8217;s on full display here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I added a link to Fora.tv. I regret not doing more to promote them &#8211; they&#8217;ve really done an excellent job of covering and making available all sorts of interesting intellectual events that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. So it shames me, to a certain extent, that it&#8217;s something of a tabloid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}