{"id":3363,"date":"2008-10-24T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/black-belt-librarian\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T23:01:00","slug":"black-belt-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/black-belt-librarian.html","title":{"rendered":"Black Belt Librarian"},"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=\"https:\/\/hokkien.uuft.org\/bradm.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/hokkien.uuft.org\/bradm.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>I want to highlight a new blog created by a librarian at Butler University, <a href=\"http:\/\/blackbeltlibrarian.wordpress.com\/about-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brad Matthies<\/a>, who is also a friend of mine. The title is \u201cBlack Belt Librarian\u201d. It should warn you, before you go over there and start stirring up trouble, that the black belt is <a href=\"http:\/\/hokkien.uuft.org\/librarian.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">no mere metaphor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The Black Belt Librarian has already taken the time to blog about our <a href=\"http:\/\/blackbeltlibrarian.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/23\/the-burial-of-jesus-by-james-mcgrath\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent discussion on campus about <em>The Burial of Jesus<\/em><\/a>, as well as the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blackbeltlibrarian.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/24\/the-big-questions\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">big questions<\/a>\u201d that have also been a focus of recent posts here. <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>So go over and take a look. Perhaps even leave a comment\u2026if you have the courage! <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8729277594937429906?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to highlight a new blog created by a librarian at Butler University, Brad Matthies, who is also a friend of mine. The title is \u201cBlack Belt Librarian\u201d. It should warn you, before you go over there and start stirring up trouble, that the black belt is no mere metaphor. 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