{"id":1414,"date":"2022-02-22T06:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T06:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2022-03-01T02:33:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T02:33:01","slug":"symbol-of-american-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/symbol-of-american-atheists\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbol of American Atheists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/american_Atheist-Symbols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4147\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The open-ended atom logo chosen by the American Atheists (AA), a group founded in 1963, is one of the oldest clearly atheist symbols. The symbol is an atomic whirl with the letter &#8216;A&#8217; in the center, designed to emphasize empirical thinking and scientific inquiry.<br>The open end of the atomic symbol represents science&#8217;s inherent incompleteness, or scientists&#8217; opinion that they have yet to discover all of the answers. Atheism is symbolized by the &#8216;A&#8217; produced by this unfinished vertical electron orbit. The central &#8216;A&#8217; stands for America, the country in which AA is located. The logo was not widely recognized as an atheist symbol since it was copyrighted by the AA organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The open-ended atom logo chosen by the American Atheists (AA), a group founded in 1963, is one of the oldest clearly atheist symbols. The symbol is an atomic whirl with the letter &#8216;A&#8217; in the center, designed to emphasize empirical thinking and scientific inquiry.The open end of the atomic symbol represents science&#8217;s inherent incompleteness, or &#8230; <a title=\"Symbol of American Atheists\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/symbol-of-american-atheists\/\" aria-label=\"More on Symbol of American Atheists\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}