{"id":3432,"date":"2008-10-01T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/mind-meld\/"},"modified":"2008-10-01T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T08:37:00","slug":"mind-meld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/mind-meld.html","title":{"rendered":"Mind Meld"},"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:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2109\/2466554362_bfa00f49b1.jpg?v=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2109\/2466554362_bfa00f49b1.jpg?v=0\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>I\u2019m one of the participants in today\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/007239.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mind Meld<\/a>\u201d on SF Signal. <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The topic for this one is the question \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and\/or Fantasy?\u201d <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Try guessing what I picked before heading over there\u2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7742810968635848766?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m one of the participants in today\u2019s \u201cMind Meld\u201d on SF Signal. 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