{"id":837,"date":"2010-10-25T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/organizing-a-different-sort-of-sausage-fest\/"},"modified":"2010-10-25T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T10:41:00","slug":"organizing-a-different-sort-of-sausage-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/organizing-a-different-sort-of-sausage-fest.html","title":{"rendered":"Organizing a Different Sort of Sausage-Fest"},"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>There\u2019s quite a bit of discussion at present about the <a href=\"http:\/\/stalinsmoustache.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/25\/concerning-the-sausage-fest-my-reply\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">attempt to censor the title of a scholarly paper<\/a> scheduled to be presented at the 2010 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. (The title of the paper, I might add, is one that is far more euphemistic than ancient Israel\u2019s prophets themselves could be on occasion!). <\/p>\n<p>But the topic has probably reminded many that we have yet to organize this year\u2019s bibliobloggers\u2019 dinner. Are there any good sausage restaurants in Atlanta? Then we could produce t-shirts that support two causes simultaneously!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dunedinschool.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/sblsausagefest.jpg?w=334&amp;h=384\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/dunedinschool.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/sblsausagefest.jpg?w=334&amp;h=384\" width=\"278\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">(The above image was <a href=\"http:\/\/religionbulletin.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/25\/sausage-blacklisted-by-the-society-of-biblical-literature\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">created and shared by Deane Gilbraithe at Religion Bulletin<\/a>).<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6307080228866294275?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s quite a bit of discussion at present about the attempt to censor the title of a scholarly paper scheduled to be presented at the 2010 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. 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