{"id":772,"date":"2010-11-11T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/why-everyone-at-sbl-will-be-unhappy\/"},"modified":"2010-11-11T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T22:29:00","slug":"why-everyone-at-sbl-will-be-unhappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/why-everyone-at-sbl-will-be-unhappy.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Everyone at SBL will be Unhappy"},"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>An <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5687282\/letting-your-mind-wander-is-a-major-cause-of-unhappiness\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">article at IO9<\/a> explains why every single individual at the Society of Biblical Literature conference is bound to be unhappy at some point. 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