Sunday, November 18th, at 7pm at Kitty O\u2019Shea\u2019s<\/strong>, an Irish pub located at the Hilton in Chicago. The directions on Google Maps include this priceless detail:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/11\/directions.png\")
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Those who need to attend receptions that evening will find it convenient to do so, I believe.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The votes are in, the election ended, and the bibliobloggers have spoken! The gathering of bibliobloggers \u2013 and I am going to once again invite any theobloggers and other bloggers about religion as well \u2013 will be Sunday, November 18th, at 7pm at Kitty O\u2019Shea\u2019s, an Irish pub located at the Hilton in Chicago. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,88],"tags":[170,195,281,317,552,649,1151,1159,1253,2116,10169,10835,11511],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-academy-of-religion","category-biblioblogging-bible","category-society-of-biblical-literature","tag-aarsbl","tag-sblaar","tag-aar","tag-academic","tag-american-academy-of-religion","tag-annual-meeting","tag-biblical-studies","tag-biblioblogging-bible","tag-bloggers","tag-conference","tag-religion","tag-sbl","tag-society-of-biblical-literature"],"yoast_head":"\n
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