{"id":2164,"date":"2009-09-02T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/dr-jims-dinosaur-upgrade-shop-and-tea-room\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:43:00","slug":"dr-jims-dinosaur-upgrade-shop-and-tea-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/dr-jims-dinosaur-upgrade-shop-and-tea-room.html","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jim&#8217;s Dinosaur Upgrade Shop and Tea Room"},"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><div><a href=\"http:\/\/drjimsthinkingshop.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim Linville<\/a> is a relative newcomer to blogging, but his posts thus far have been incredibly entertaining. I often kick myself and wonder why I didn\u2019t have some of his ideas first (for instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/drjimsthinkingshop.com\/2009\/08\/26\/review-of-biblical-literature-now-with-lolcat-awards\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lolcats<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/drjimsthinkingshop.com\/2009\/08\/19\/review-of-biblical-literature-new-reviews\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">versions<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/drjimsthinkingshop.com\/2009\/09\/01\/review-of-biblical-literature-lolcat-awards-awarded\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Review of Biblical Literature<\/a>).\n<p>His <a href=\"http:\/\/drjimsthinkingshop.com\/2009\/09\/02\/far-left-creationism-upgrading\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">latest post<\/a> includes a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2008\/6-2-08.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cartoon <\/a>that nicely complements <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/interpreting-creation-stories.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the one Chris Brady shared yesterday<\/a>: <\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkingshop.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/6-2-08.gif?w=365&amp;h=452\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thinkingshop.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/6-2-08.gif?w=365&amp;h=452\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3202073161230331836?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Linville is a relative newcomer to blogging, but his posts thus far have been incredibly entertaining. I often kick myself and wonder why I didn\u2019t have some of his ideas first (for instance, lolcats versions of the Review of Biblical Literature). His latest post includes a nice cartoon that nicely complements the one Chris [&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-2164","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>Dr. Jim&#039;s Dinosaur Upgrade Shop and Tea Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jim Linville is a relative newcomer to blogging, but his posts thus far have been incredibly entertaining. 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