{"id":442,"date":"2011-06-04T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=436"},"modified":"2011-06-04T00:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T04:00:03","slug":"the-biblioblog-top-10-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/06\/the-biblioblog-top-10-may-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"The Biblioblog Top 10 (May 2011)"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thedarklabyrinth.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/number-1-sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"100\">Thanks to<a href=\"http:\/\/biblioblogtop50.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/03\/may-2011-top-10-biblioblogs\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Daniel McClellan for posting the Top 10 Biblioblogs by vote for this past month<\/a>, and thank you to everyone who voted for Exploring Our Matrix, which came in #1 again! Thanks for following the blog to its new location!<\/p>\n<p>A newcomer to the top 10, right there at the bottom, is Jim West. Having been <a href=\"http:\/\/zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/02\/joel-um-i-mean-achan-has-become-the-threatener\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bumped from the #1 position on the top 50 list<\/a>, it is interesting to see his blog appear in the top 10 by vote for the first time. Whether he can <a href=\"http:\/\/zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/02\/very-true-j-b\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">become #1<\/a> is another matter. People often won\u2019t vote for you if you take candid photos of them at Wal*Mart and post them on your blog, or call them totally depraved all the time, or <a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2011\/06\/where-will-the-anti-catholicism-of-jim-and-jeremiah\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">stuff like that<\/a>. \u00a0And so that could present an insurmountable hurdle, should Jim wish to try to become #1 on this list.<\/p>\n<p>To quote the <a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2011\/06\/i-am-number-4\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">new #1 blogger<\/a> in the Top 50: \u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2011\/06\/biblioblogging-carnival-unsettled-edition\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Just sayin\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Daniel McClellan for posting the Top 10 Biblioblogs by vote for this past month, and thank you to everyone who voted for Exploring Our Matrix, which came in #1 again! Thanks for following the blog to its new location! A newcomer to the top 10, right there at the bottom, is Jim West. 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