{"id":232,"date":"2013-07-20T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2013-07-20T18:58:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T01:58:06","slug":"232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/232\/","title":{"rendered":"Perils of Free Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Perils<\/a>

Perils of Free Thought (a book of no small danger)\u00a0<\/em> by David Raffin.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

A book of jokes, anti-jokes, philosophy, and bears.<\/p>\n

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A book of jokes, anti-jokes, philosophy, and bears. ebook: [amazon asin=B0080AGLNC&template=iframe image] print:\u00a0[amazon asin=1490919112&template=iframe image]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-my-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3u13S-232","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":198,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/perils-cesspools-treason-in-paperback\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":0},"title":"Perils, Cesspools, Treason in Paperback","author":"David Raffin","date":"July 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Perils of Free Thought (a book of no small danger) now available in paperback. 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