{"id":1292,"date":"2010-05-15T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/lost-already-and-not-yet\/"},"modified":"2010-05-15T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T11:27:00","slug":"lost-already-and-not-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/lost-already-and-not-yet.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST Already and Not Yet"},"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>I saw today that the New York Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/16\/arts\/television\/16weblost.html?th=&amp;emc=th&amp;pagewanted=all\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an\u00a0inerview with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse<\/a>\u00a0and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2010\/05\/16\/arts\/television\/20100516-lost-interactive.html?th&amp;emc=th\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">interactive gallery of the characters<\/a> on LOST. I\u2019ve been\u00a0helping USA Today put together\u00a0an interactive treatment of religion\u00a0and LOST, which should be appearing on their web site early next week. They will also be publishing an op-ed piece I wrote about religion on LOST.<\/p>\n<p>In other LOST news, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docarzt.com\/lost\/lost-news\/rogue-satellite-could-interfere-with-lost-finale\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Docarzts-Lost-Blog+%28DocArzt%27s+Lost+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">rogue satellite<\/a> could interfere with cable viewers of the finale. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docarzt.com\/lost\/the-podlast-the-last-official-lost-podcast-probably\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Docarzts-Lost-Blog+%28DocArzt%27s+Lost+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">(probably) last podcast<\/a> has been released. And <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5539226\/fringe-is-becoming-the-show-that-lost-wishes-it-could-be\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9 has an article about Fringe<\/a>, J. J. Abrams\u2019 other show about science and faith.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6313116129942396862?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw today that the New York Times has an\u00a0inerview with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse\u00a0and an interactive gallery of the characters on LOST. I\u2019ve been\u00a0helping USA Today put together\u00a0an interactive treatment of religion\u00a0and LOST, which should be appearing on their web site early next week. 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