{"id":3902,"date":"2008-02-20T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/quote-of-the-day-philip-hefner\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T22:56:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-philip-hefner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/quote-of-the-day-philip-hefner.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Philip Hefner)"},"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><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cThe question about which story is truer is not equivalent to which story is more factual, because we weave the facts and the stories in the same cloth, like warp and weft on a loom\u201d<\/span> (Philip Hefner, <em>Technology and Human Becoming<\/em> (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2003) p.69).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3447572106756556225?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe question about which story is truer is not equivalent to which story is more factual, because we weave the facts and the stories in the same cloth, like warp and weft on a loom\u201d (Philip Hefner, Technology and Human Becoming (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2003) p.69).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the Day (Philip Hefner)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;The question about which story is truer is not equivalent to which story is more factual, because we weave the facts and the stories in the same cloth,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/quote-of-the-day-philip-hefner.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Day (Philip Hefner)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;The question about which story is truer is not equivalent to which story is more factual, because we weave the facts and the stories in the same cloth,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/quote-of-the-day-philip-hefner.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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