{"id":6916,"date":"2011-05-22T11:28:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T18:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2011-05-27T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:42:06","slug":"william-s-burroughs-ditched-scientology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/05\/22\/william-s-burroughs-ditched-scientology\/","title":{"rendered":"William S. Burroughs Ditched Scientology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5800673\/william-s-burroughss-wild-ride-with-scientology\">Here&#8217;s an article from I09.com about how William S. Burroughs was, for a period, fascinated by Scientology<\/a>.\u00a0 He joined and even used many of the group&#8217;s principals in some of his work.\u00a0 But he eventually turned against the group because he recognized that they were more interested in maintaining a corporate hierarchy of secrecy than in pursuing genuine ideas.\u00a0 It&#8217;s natural for a writer of Burroughs&#8217; genius to be curious and to find the best in a group like Scientology.\u00a0 It is also natural for him to see through the horse shit and ditch the idiots in a Hollywood Boulevard gutter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerousminds.net\/comments\/william_s._burroughs_and_scientology\/\">Here&#8217;s a good read about Burroughs and Scientology from Dangerous Minds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article from I09.com about how William S. Burroughs was, for a period, fascinated by Scientology.\u00a0 He joined and even used many of the group&#8217;s principals in some of his work.\u00a0 But he eventually turned against the group because he recognized that they were more interested in maintaining a corporate hierarchy of secrecy than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1452,1314,119],"tags":[1865,1866,1864,935,933,903],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-2","category-documentary-film","category-writing","tag-cult","tag-i09","tag-nodzilla","tag-religion","tag-scientology","tag-william-s-burroughs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6970,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions\/6970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}