{"id":37907,"date":"2016-08-29T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=37907"},"modified":"2016-08-29T13:05:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T17:05:50","slug":"the-lego-grad-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/08\/the-lego-grad-student.html","title":{"rendered":"The LEGO Grad Student"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_37908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37908\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37908\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2016\/08\/LEGO-grad-student-cookies.jpg\" alt=\"LEGO grad student cookies\" width=\"442\" height=\"327\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Checking that the coast is clear, the grad student makes his third casual pass at the free cookies at the large exhibition stall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>I\u2019m grateful to <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2016\/08\/29\/that-went-dark-fast\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">PZ Myers<\/a> for sharing a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/legogradstudent.tumblr.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the LEGO Grad Student<\/a>. 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