{"id":26318,"date":"2014-09-26T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=26318"},"modified":"2014-09-26T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T15:23:50","slug":"real-texting-while-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/09\/real-texting-while-walking.html","title":{"rendered":"Real Texting While Walking"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-26319\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/09\/real-texting-while-walking.png\" alt=\"real texting while walking\" width=\"634\" height=\"468\"><\/p>\n<p>The image above was inspired by a real-life experience I had today. I was walking down the hallway, and a colleague, a Classics professor, was walking slowly in the same direction I was headed, looking down, arms\u00a0in that tell-tale position. And so I walked up behind him and said jokingly, \u201cStop texting and walking. Be a better example!\u201d He turned around, and was holding a book.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s\u00a0<em>real<\/em>\u00a0\u201ctexting\u201d while walking. And I thought it was meme-worthy. Unfortunately I didn\u2019t catch the moment in a photo, and so\u00a0hopefully the scene I chose from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000E1ZBGS\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000E1ZBGS&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=CDG4IF6CBQWJ6YZH\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pride &amp; Prejudice<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000E1ZBGS\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/em> will do instead.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image above was inspired by a real-life experience I had today. I was walking down the hallway, and a colleague, a Classics professor, was walking slowly in the same direction I was headed, looking down, arms\u00a0in that tell-tale position. And so I walked up behind him and said jokingly, \u201cStop texting and walking. 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