{"id":73,"date":"2006-02-13T17:29:33","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"1139869773","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1139869773\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Seek Blasphemy Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from <a href=\"\/index.php?subaction=showcomments&#038;id=1138811671\">last week&#39;s defeat<\/a> of a government bill to outlaw &#8220;abusive and insulting&#8221; criticism of religion, Philip Pullman and Nicholas Hytner (director of HDM at the National Theatre) are leading renewed calls for the repeal of the existing blasphemy laws in Britain &#8211; which apply solely to the Church of England. &#8220;Religion,&#8221; said Pullman, &#8220;like every other form of human thought, [has to] take its chance in free, open debate.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2037230,00.html\">Read more<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from last week&#39;s defeat of a government bill to outlaw &#8220;abusive and insulting&#8221; criticism of religion, Philip Pullman and Nicholas Hytner (director of HDM at the National Theatre) are leading renewed calls for the repeal of the existing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1139869773\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}