{"id":2924,"date":"2010-03-27T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/finding-god-in-lost-pits-me-against-james-cameron\/"},"modified":"2010-03-27T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T23:23:00","slug":"finding-god-in-lost-pits-me-against-james-cameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/finding-god-in-lost-pits-me-against-james-cameron.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding God in LOST Pits Me Against James Cameron"},"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>Butler University has been making basketball headlines, but it also issued a press release on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/finding-god-in-lost-butler-university-expert-offers-explanation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Finding God In Lost<\/a>.\u201d That press release got picked up and used in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.gather.com\/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978133931\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article that pits me against James Cameron<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it isn\u2019t only expertise in archaeology that allows you to take on James Cameron\u00a0\u2013\u00a0blogging about LOST can serve the same purpose!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5753891124570809867?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butler University has been making basketball headlines, but it also issued a press release on \u201cFinding God In Lost.\u201d That press release got picked up and used in an article that pits me against James Cameron! 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