{"id":1293,"date":"2011-08-13T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T04:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2011-08-13T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T04:01:34","slug":"an-appeal-to-the-biblioblogging-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/an-appeal-to-the-biblioblogging-community.html","title":{"rendered":"An Appeal To The Biblioblogging Community"},"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>To the biblioblogging community,<\/p>\n<p>As I will be hosting the Biblical Studies Carnival at the start of next month with its round-up of posts from this month, you might be expecting me to remind you of this fact and ask you to submit posts. <\/p>\n<p>That is not why I am writing.<\/p>\n<p>I am writing to let you know that, due to your impressive efforts this month, I have more than enough material for a Biblical Studies Carnival already.<\/p>\n<p>I thus appeal to you to leave a comment here indicating whether you would agree to cease blogging about the Bible for the remainder of the month.<\/p>\n<p>If you are willing to do so, then I can stop gathering posts and focus on other things. If you are not willing to do so, then I may have to create a two-part carnival, with one post featuring the first half of the month\u2019s blogging, and then another one with the second half (and anything that you submit to me that I missed from the first half of the month).<\/p>\n<p>Let me know which you prefer.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s host<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the biblioblogging community, As I will be hosting the Biblical Studies Carnival at the start of next month with its round-up of posts from this month, you might be expecting me to remind you of this fact and ask you to submit posts. That is not why I am writing. 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