{"id":1759,"date":"2010-03-06T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2010-03-06T08:38:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:38:36","slug":"week-of-dawkins-and-socceroos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1759","title":{"rendered":"Week of Dawkins and Socceroos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its been a weird sort of week in Brisbane.\u00a0 It started raining about ten days ago and it hasn’t really stopped.\u00a0 In fact, I’m looking out the window now and its still going.<\/p>\n

Typical then that it should happen on a week where we actually had some plans to go out a bunch of times.\u00a0 Firstly, the Asian Cup Qualifier between Australia vs Indonesia.\u00a0 A game that Australia had to either win or draw to ensure qualification.<\/p>\n

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Australia vs Indonesia<\/p><\/div>\n

As it turned out, the weather was the least of our worries.\u00a0 Although the Australians fielded an A-League side that was hungry to prove itself for potential selection in the World Cup squad, the Indonesians turned up to the give stretcher bearers a work out.\u00a0 Any tackle, loss of possession or even a gentle breeze seemed to be enough for the Indonesians to hit the deck and roll around in mock-agony until the stretcher bearers would carry them off the pitch.\u00a0 At which point, once they reached the sidelines, they would get up and jog back onto the field.\u00a0 It was a puzzling\u00a0 and disappointingly cynical strategy for a side that had nothing to gain from playing that way.\u00a0 This turgid affair ended 1-0 in Australias favour but I’ll mostly remember the game for Brisbane Roar player Tommy Oar’s Socceroo debut.\u00a0 He’s 18 years old and a promising talent and given the mass exodus of quality players from the Roar this season, I think its reasonable to expect that that was probably one of the last times I’d see him play at Suncorp.<\/p>\n

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A signed copy of Richard Dawkin's fifth best book! - I already own The God Dellusion and The Greatest Show On Earth, and they had sold out of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker<\/p><\/div>\n

Also, famous British biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins was in town this week to give a lecture based around his current book The Greatest Show On Earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was an funny sort of evening.\u00a0 He actually started off rather dryly, structuring his lecture around excerpts from each chapter of his book.\u00a0 He did seem a wee bit stiff, occasionally stumbling over his words and having some lengthy pauses while his thoughts caught up with his speech.\u00a0 However, he then started to ease up, and with that came a few jokes, some trademarks jabs at organised religion and by the end of the night, myself and Jen came away pretty satisfied with the nights entertainment.\u00a0 He was particularly sharp during the Q&A with the audience although we were a tad disappointed that there wasn’t actually any practising theists showing up to debate him.\u00a0 Overall, it was a great evening and an unexpected opportunity to meet one of the world’s most recognizable champion of atheism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its been a weird sort of week in Brisbane.\u00a0 It started raining about ten days ago and it hasn’t really stopped.\u00a0 In fact, I’m looking out the window now and its still going. Typical then that it should happen on a week where we actually had some plans to go out a bunch of times.\u00a0 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[490,491],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-richard-dawkins","tag-socceroos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}