{"id":1692,"date":"2010-01-28T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/lost-time-travel-and-board-game\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:33:00","slug":"lost-time-travel-and-board-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/lost-time-travel-and-board-game.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST Time Travel and Board Game"},"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>While the science blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/01\/28\/time-travel-in-lost-the-metaphorics-of-predestination\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CosmicVarianceBlog+%28Cosmic+Variance%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cosmic Variance at <em>Discover Magazine<\/em> discusses time travel on LOST<\/a> as a metaphor as well as a scientific subject, the LOST metaphor of the board game (whether chess or backgammon) has become a reality as <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5456901\/can-you-win-the-jj-abrams-board-game\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9 offers a J. J. Abrams board game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/S2HnQk-oyRI\/AAAAAAAAAi8\/oxnGWGmb6O4\/s1600-h\/jjabramsboardgame.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/S2HnQk-oyRI\/AAAAAAAAAi8\/oxnGWGmb6O4\/s640\/jjabramsboardgame.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Also relevant is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddytv.com\/articles\/lost\/5-ways-i-dont-want-lost-to-end-34008.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Buddy TV\u2019s list of ways they don\u2019t want LOST to end<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8398228534273041863?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the science blog Cosmic Variance at Discover Magazine discusses time travel on LOST as a metaphor as well as a scientific subject, the LOST metaphor of the board game (whether chess or backgammon) has become a reality as IO9 offers a J. 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Abrams board game: Also relevant is Buddy TV\u2019s list of ways [&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-1692","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>LOST Time Travel and Board Game<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While the science blog Cosmic Variance at Discover Magazine discusses time travel on LOST as a metaphor as well as a scientific subject, the LOST metaphor\" \/>\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\/01\/lost-time-travel-and-board-game.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LOST Time Travel and Board Game\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While the science blog Cosmic Variance at Discover Magazine discusses time travel on LOST as a metaphor as well as a scientific subject, the LOST metaphor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/lost-time-travel-and-board-game.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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