{"id":462,"date":"2011-01-07T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/quote-of-the-day-joel-watts\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T23:14:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-joel-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/quote-of-the-day-joel-watts.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Joel Watts)"},"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><div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #660000;font-size: large\">\u201c[R]reading the text as if it was as plain as the nose on your face only gets you that far into the text \u2013 to the bare tip of your nose.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014 Joel Watts, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2011\/01\/rules-for-studying-genesis-marv-gets-it-wrong\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheChurchOfJesusChrist+%28The+Church+of+Jesus+Christ%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rules for Studying Genesis \u2013 Marv Gets It Wrong<\/a>\u201c<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4081905781202861748?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[R]reading the text as if it was as plain as the nose on your face only gets you that far into the text \u2013 to the bare tip of your nose.\u201d \u2014 Joel Watts, \u201cRules for Studying Genesis \u2013 Marv Gets It Wrong\u201c<\/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-462","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 (Joel Watts)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;reading the text as if it was as plain as the nose on your face only gets you that far into the text \u2013 to the bare tip of your nose.&quot;-- Joel Watts,\" \/>\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\/2011\/01\/quote-of-the-day-joel-watts.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 (Joel Watts)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;reading the text as if it was as plain as the nose on your face only gets you that far into the text \u2013 to the bare tip of your nose.&quot;-- Joel Watts,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/01\/quote-of-the-day-joel-watts.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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