{"id":1056,"date":"2010-08-07T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/quote-of-the-day-john-shore\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T00:25:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-john-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/08\/quote-of-the-day-john-shore.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (John Shore)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #660000;font-size: large\">\u201cA person who at college doesn\u2019t find himself seriously questioning all sorts of core assumptions about himself and the way he thinks is almost certainly receiving an inferior education. Learning new things means questioning the old things.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014 John Shore, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/johnshore.com\/2010\/08\/06\/doubting-christ-young-christian-have-at-it\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doubting Christ, Young Christian? Have At It!<\/a>\u201d <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">(HT <a href=\"http:\/\/whateverisgood.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/doubting-christ-young-christian-have-at.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wes Ellis<\/a>) <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3621028773714776123?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA person who at college doesn\u2019t find himself seriously questioning all sorts of core assumptions about himself and the way he thinks is almost certainly receiving an inferior education. Learning new things means questioning the old things.\u201d \u2014 John Shore, \u201cDoubting Christ, Young Christian? 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