{"id":1316,"date":"2010-05-04T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/lost-tragedy-and-humor\/"},"modified":"2010-05-04T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T23:15:00","slug":"lost-tragedy-and-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/lost-tragedy-and-humor.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST Tragedy and Humor"},"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>Tonight\u2019s episode of LOST is just too painfully sad to blog about. But of course, you knew that already.<\/p>\n<p>What I can say is that it seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesacredpage.com\/2010\/05\/other-sbl-papers-on-blogging.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the session about biblioblogging at SBL in Atlanta will feature more than one serious LOST fan<\/a>, and it will be interesting to see what results from that.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0And IO9 has an article with advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5529431\/how-to-fake-being-an-expert-on-lost\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">how to fake being a LOST fan<\/a>. But now you won\u2019t be able to fake it if you don\u2019t know what happened in tonight\u2019s episode. 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