{"id":25517,"date":"2011-04-07T21:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/british_astrophysicist_wins_templeton_prize\/"},"modified":"2011-04-07T21:26:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:26:01","slug":"british_astrophysicist_wins_templeton_prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25517","title":{"rendered":"British Astrophysicist Wins Templeton Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British theoretical astrophysicist who has achieved renown for his study of the cosmos and for sounding warnings about the future of humanity has won the $1.6 million 2011 Templeton Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Martin J. Rees of Cambridge University, a former president of Britain\u2019s prestigious Royal Society, was announced the winner on Wednesday (April 6) by the John Templeton Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The annual prize honors an individual who has made \u201cexceptional contributions to affirming life\u2019s spiritual dimension.\u201d\u009d Rees is a somewhat unorthodox choice because he holds no formal religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/british-astrophysicist-wins-templeton-prize-cms-17717\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British theoretical astrophysicist who has achieved renown for his study of the cosmos and for sounding warnings about the future of humanity has won the $1.6 million 2011 Templeton Prize. Martin J. Rees of Cambridge University, a former president<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25517\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}