{"id":67,"date":"2006-10-20T12:37:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/humanism\/2006\/10\/20\/thank-you\/"},"modified":"2006-10-20T12:51:13","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:51:13","slug":"thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/2006\/10\/20\/thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was a wonderful, special night for our growing Harvard Humanist community. And before I even say why, I want to say thank you to Humanist Grads <strong>Peter Blake<\/strong>, <strong>Jananda Hill<\/strong>, and  <strong>Tom Gessel<\/strong>, and Harvard Secular Society members <strong>Julie Duncan<\/strong>, <strong>Will Nygard<\/strong>, and <strong>Zoe Kawaller<\/strong>, and others. You all really gave of your talents, heart, and effort and it showed.<\/p>\n<div>I want to thank <strong>HSS President Amanda Shapiro<\/strong> who not only helped last night but in general has been doing so much fantastic work that, guys, I&#8217;d actually be a bit nervous about the fact that she has 2 papers to write this important weekend if I didn&#8217;t know that others are going to help pick up her slack on an important Saturday and Sunday while she tends to non-HSS, non-Julia Sweeney life. But more on this below.<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"405\" height=\"302\" alt=\"Dawkins 1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/humanism\/files\/2006\/10\/Humanistgrads%20w:%20Dawkins%201.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>And finally, I want to thank Professor Richard Dawkins<\/u><\/strong>, for taking more than an hour out of his exhausting schedule to attend our monthly Humanist Grads social gathering at Phillips Brooks House, after both his powerful and passionate reading for a huge crowd and a book-signing for an impossibly long queue (the latter gave some students mentioned above ample time to do wonderful publicity work for Julia Sweeney). Richard, the fact that you were willing to sit and get to know us and hear our thoughts, questions and extended discussion about Humanism when we would have been all too ready to hear another lecture from you, says so much. It shows you truly care about your work and the people you affect&#8211; apparently you have more than a few unselfish genes.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"404\" height=\"302\" alt=\"Dawkins 2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/humanism\/files\/2006\/10\/Humanistgrads%20w:Dawkins%202.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Dr. Dawkins joined several dozen of us at Phillips Brooks House for what I hope is becoming a regular tradition of Humanist Grads getting together monthly just to eat and drink a little and be social, argumentative, contemplative&#8230;just to be <em>ourselves<\/em> and actually experience that rare and mysterious bird we might call\u00a0&#8220;Humanist Community.&#8221; For more, join the Humanistgrads listserv: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lists.hcs.harvard.edu\/mailman\/listinfo\/humanistgrads\"> http:\/\/lists.hcs.harvard.edu\/mailman\/listinfo\/humanistgrads<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"402\" height=\"301\" alt=\"Dawkins 3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/humanism\/files\/2006\/10\/Humanistgrads%20w:Dawkins%203.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was a wonderful, special night for our growing Harvard Humanist community. And before I even say why, I want to say thank you to Humanist Grads Peter Blake, Jananda Hill, and Tom Gessel, and Harvard Secular Society members Julie Duncan, Will Nygard, and Zoe Kawaller, and others. You all really gave of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}