{"id":1124,"date":"2019-10-08T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T08:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T10:38:50","slug":"peter-caves-new-book-on-modern-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Peter Cave&#8217;s new book on modern mythology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/peter-cave-myths.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/peter-cave-myths-300x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/peter-cave-myths-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/peter-cave-myths-768x341.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/peter-cave-myths-1024x455.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/peter-cave-myths-624x277.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/peter-cave-myths.jpg 1458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Peter Cave, one of our long-standing philosophy tutors, has just written a book of popular philosophy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantic-books.co.uk\/contributor\/peter-cave\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/atlantic-books.co.uk');\">The Myths We Live By: Adventures in Free Speech and Other Liberal Adventures<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who knows him through his teaching or his other books will know that it contains plenty to disagree with, and plenty of imaginative (in the best sense) arguments to make doing so tricky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Cave, one of our long-standing philosophy tutors, has just written a book of popular philosophy: The Myths We Live By: Adventures in Free Speech and Other Liberal Adventures Anyone who knows him through his teaching or his other books will know that it contains plenty to disagree with, and plenty of imaginative (in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/philosophy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}