{"id":9450,"date":"2009-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/thenewatlantis.com\/authors\/alan-jacobs"},"modified":"2023-06-29T13:51:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:51:38","slug":"alan-jacobs","status":"publish","type":"contributor","link":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/authors\/alan-jacobs","title":{"rendered":"Alan Jacobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alan Jacobs, a contributing editor of <i>The New Atlantis<\/i> and the author of the now-retired <a href=\"http:\/\/text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com\">Text Patterns blog<\/a> on TheNewAtlantis.com, is a distinguished professor of the humanities in the honors program of Baylor University. His recent books include <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/608945\/breaking-bread-with-the-dead-by-alan-jacobs\/\">Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader\u2019s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind<\/a><\/em> (Penguin, 2020),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0190864656\/?tag=thenewatl-20\"><em>The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis<\/em><\/a> (Oxford University Press, 2018) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0451499603\/?tag=thenewatl-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds<\/em><\/a> (Currency, 2017). His homepage is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/ayjay.org\/\">http:\/\/www.ayjay.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor\/9450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/contributor"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor\/9450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28406,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor\/9450\/revisions\/28406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}