{"id":159,"date":"2017-04-09T16:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/?p=159"},"modified":"2017-10-29T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T12:07:13","slug":"writers-moment-passion-and-rational-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Writer&#8217;s Moment: Passion and Rational Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder\u2019s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013 Bertrand Russell in the introduction to &#8220;Sceptical Essays&#8221; (1961).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder\u2019s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. \u2013 Bertrand Russell in the introduction to &#8220;Sceptical Essays&#8221; (1961).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,7,9],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3G1nH-2z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thescreenplay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}