{"id":1137,"date":"2007-01-04T02:41:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T08:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/shermer-vs-chopra-afterlife-debate\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T02:48:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T08:48:56","slug":"shermer-vs-chopra-afterlife-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/shermer-vs-chopra-afterlife-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Shermer vs. Chopra Afterlife Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second debate between Deepak Chopra and Michael Shermer on the subject of afterlife. I have read a few books by Chopra and have attended several presentations by Shermer at CalTech in Pasadena. I do have one comment to make regarding a glaring downfall in one of the author&#8217;s debates: Can you say <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ad_hominem\">ad hominem<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/reading_room\/debates\/afterlife.html\">Shermer vs. Chopra Afterlife Debate<\/a> and make your own assessments. The first Shermer-Chopra debate is available at the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second debate between Deepak Chopra and Michael Shermer on the subject of afterlife. I have read a few books by Chopra and have attended several presentations by Shermer at CalTech in Pasadena. I do have one comment to make regarding a glaring downfall in one of the author&#8217;s debates: Can you say ad hominem? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-il","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}