{"id":2737,"date":"2010-12-14T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/nativity-2-0\/"},"modified":"2010-12-14T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T09:12:00","slug":"nativity-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/nativity-2-0.html","title":{"rendered":"Nativity 2.0"},"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>A retelling of the traditional nativity story updated to include today\u2019s technology.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GkHNNPM7pJA?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GkHNNPM7pJA?fs=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biblicalpaths.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/14\/the-digital-story-of-the-nativity\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephen Smuts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/14\/the-nativity-for-the-digital-age\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim West<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thebiblicalworld.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/story-of-nativity-in-digital-age.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Byron<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/church_20\/social_media_nativity_20_1.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+episcopalcafe%2Flead+%28The+Lead%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Lead<\/a> all shared this before I did.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5505096273243373348?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retelling of the traditional nativity story updated to include today\u2019s technology. 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