{"id":563,"date":"2010-12-21T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/grades-are-in\/"},"modified":"2010-12-21T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T09:24:00","slug":"grades-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/grades-are-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Grades Are In!"},"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>It is that time of year again, as winter begins and joy fills the hearts of professors everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>My grades for this semester have been submitted, and so now I can do nothing but relax and perhaps read for pleasure\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I hope you laughed out loud at that last statement. It is <i>so<\/i>\u00a0not true.<\/p>\n<p>But the truth is that I <i>do<\/i>\u00a0expect to take pleasure in the things I have lined up to read over the Christmas holiday break, namely a substantial number of books to review.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also looking forward to diving back into the Mandaean Book of John translation and a couple of other writing projects.<\/p>\n<p>If your work\/study gives you a significant break over the coming weeks, what are you looking forward to doing?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6617819150605712466?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of year again, as winter begins and joy fills the hearts of professors everywhere. 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