{"id":2875,"date":"2010-07-22T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/exploring-our-matrix-now-with-more-matrix\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T23:51:00","slug":"exploring-our-matrix-now-with-more-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/exploring-our-matrix-now-with-more-matrix.html","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Our Matrix &#8211; Now With More Matrix!"},"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>I\u2019ve been trying some new templates, layouts, color schemes and other style modifications on the blog. The header is now more \u201cMatrixesque\u201d than it was. <\/p>\n<p>I thought about putting a LOST background behind the blog title, but having given the blog a title which mentions the Matrix, it seems appropriate to stick with it, however\u00a0much that\u00a0leads to the blog having a distinctively \u201cretro\u201d feel.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, one of the themes of the Matrix\u00a0movie series was that the world that\u00a0humans\u00a0think of as the \u201creal world\u201d was itself \u201cretro\u201d and yet no one knew they were really living in the future. 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