{"id":426,"date":"2011-01-20T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/what-would-you-like-to-study\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T16:30:00","slug":"what-would-you-like-to-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/what-would-you-like-to-study.html","title":{"rendered":"What Would You Like To Study?"},"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=\"http:\/\/cryptotheology.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/20\/further-study\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew Malcolm<\/a>, almost as if sensing how well this would follow on the heels of my earlier meme, has asked <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptotheology.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/20\/further-study\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">what further study you would like to engage in<\/a>, if you could.<\/p>\n<p>It would be pretty dull to simply go back to the list of languages I\u2019d like to learn, although those are obvious and valid answers to the question of what I\u2019d love to study further. Indeed, I hope at some point to find time to sit in on some of the language classes offered at Butler to try to improve my knowledge of certain languages.<\/p>\n<p>But apart from that, I think the answer would be <i>music<\/i>. Classes in composition, Jazz piano, music history \u2013 I could definitely see myself pursuing that, if I had the time.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? What would you study if you had the chance?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2522652274308483822?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Malcolm, almost as if sensing how well this would follow on the heels of my earlier meme, has asked what further study you would like to engage in, if you could. 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