{"id":28015,"date":"2015-01-06T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=28015"},"modified":"2015-01-06T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:23:14","slug":"yoda-buddha-obi-wan-and-confucius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/01\/yoda-buddha-obi-wan-and-confucius.html","title":{"rendered":"Yoda, Buddha, Obi-Wan, and Confucius"},"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 href=\"http:\/\/antiquitynow.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AntiquityNow<\/a> has free materials\u00a0-ranging from bookmarks to cookbooks to curricula \u2013 related to the ancient world. Some of it incorporates science fiction, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/antiquitynow.org\/education\/resources\/printable-bookmarks\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bookmark<\/a> below or <a href=\"http:\/\/antiquitynow.org\/2014\/05\/13\/science-fiction-or-just-a-matter-of-time-time-travel-from-ancient-mythology-to-modern-science-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the\u00a0curriculum on time travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antiquitynow.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/star-wars-bookmark-page-final.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28016\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/01\/Star-Wars-Antiquity-Now-Bookmark.png\" alt=\"Star Wars Antiquity Now Bookmark\" width=\"292\" height=\"212\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of almost but not entirely unrelated interest, <a href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2015\/01\/05\/lara-croft-msc\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The\u00a0Toast has\u00a0a list of courses taken by Lara Croft when working on her Master of Library Science degree<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AntiquityNow has free materials\u00a0-ranging from bookmarks to cookbooks to curricula \u2013 related to the ancient world. 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