{"id":364,"date":"2007-11-03T01:53:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-answers-questions-on-the-today-show\/"},"modified":"2007-11-03T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T20:55:07","slug":"pullman-answers-questions-on-the-today-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-answers-questions-on-the-today-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman answers questions on the Today Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Philip Pullman appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21595083\/\">NBC<\/a> to speak to Al Roker who features the Golden Compass as his <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20412545\/\">book club selection<\/a>.  As well as responding to accusations that his books are &#8220;atheism for kids,&#8221; and speaking about what he hopes his readers take up from the books, he also answers some of his readers&#8217; questions.  &#8220;As for the atheism, it doesn&#8217;t matter to me whether people believe in God or not, so I&#8217;m not promoting anything of that sort. What I do care about is whether people are cruel or whether they&#8217;re kind, whether they act for democracy or for tyranny, whether they believe in open-minded enquiry or in shutting the freedom of thought and expression.&#8221;  The website also features video from the interview and questions from elementary school students participating in Al&#8217;s Book Club.  <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21595083\/\">Click here to read more and see the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Philip Pullman appeared on NBC to speak to Al Roker who features the Golden Compass as his book club selection. As well as responding to accusations that his books are &#8220;atheism for kids,&#8221; and speaking about what he hopes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-answers-questions-on-the-today-show\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philip-pullman","category-golden-compass-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}