{"id":1260,"date":"2010-05-24T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/i-want-my-dose-of-james-mcgrath-talking-about-lost-on-mtv-news\/"},"modified":"2010-05-24T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:39:00","slug":"i-want-my-dose-of-james-mcgrath-talking-about-lost-on-mtv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/i-want-my-dose-of-james-mcgrath-talking-about-lost-on-mtv-news.html","title":{"rendered":"I Want My (Dose of James McGrath Talking about LOST on) MTV (News)"},"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><p>Today I did an interview with MTV news about the LOST finale and in particular some of the religious ideas and imagery connected with the \u201cflash sideways universe.\u201d The result is the article by Eric Ditzian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1639903\/20100524\/story.jhtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201c\u2018Lost\u2019 Finale: Experts Talk Impact Of Religion On The Island.\u201d<\/a> If you read it, let me know what you think of this \u201cmash up\u201d of religion experts commenting on LOST\u2019s own religious mash-up!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8043529917327486754?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I did an interview with MTV news about the LOST finale and in particular some of the religious ideas and imagery connected with the \u201cflash sideways universe.\u201d The result is the article by Eric Ditzian, \u201c\u2018Lost\u2019 Finale: Experts Talk Impact Of Religion On The Island.\u201d If you read it, let me know what you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I Want My (Dose of James McGrath Talking about LOST on) MTV (News)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today I did an interview with MTV news about the LOST finale and in particular some of the religious ideas and imagery connected with the &quot;flash sideways\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/i-want-my-dose-of-james-mcgrath-talking-about-lost-on-mtv-news.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I Want My (Dose of James McGrath Talking about LOST on) MTV (News)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today I did an interview with MTV news about the LOST finale and in particular some of the religious ideas and imagery connected with the &quot;flash sideways\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/i-want-my-dose-of-james-mcgrath-talking-about-lost-on-mtv-news.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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