{"id":338,"date":"2011-02-21T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/ancient-and-modern-memory\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T11:17:00","slug":"ancient-and-modern-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/ancient-and-modern-memory.html","title":{"rendered":"Ancient and Modern Memory"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarplayerscenter.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/Do-guitar-players-have-muscle-memory.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guitarplayerscenter.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/Do-guitar-players-have-muscle-memory.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The blog <a href=\"http:\/\/badrhetoric.com\/?p=878\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bad Rhetoric<\/a> linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/02\/20\/magazine\/mind-secrets.html?src=me&amp;ref=homepage\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a piece\u00a0in the <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em>\u00a0connecting modern feats of memory with the ancient Greeks\u2019 discovery of how to utlize memory more effectively<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Those interested in the memory of people in the Greco-Roman era, or just interested in remembering things in the present, will find it interesting \u2013 and memorable!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5670372478461972121?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog Bad Rhetoric linked to a piece\u00a0in the New York Times Magazine\u00a0connecting modern feats of memory with the ancient Greeks\u2019 discovery of how to utlize memory more effectively. 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