{"id":866,"date":"2010-10-15T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/blog-action-day-water\/"},"modified":"2010-10-15T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:01:00","slug":"blog-action-day-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/blog-action-day-water.html","title":{"rendered":"Blog Action Day: Water"},"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>I thought I should get 2010 Blog Action Day started by sharing a few posts related to this year\u2019s theme of <em>water<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/10\/14\/my-take-why-people-of-faith-should-care-about-clean-water\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CNN\u2019s Belief Blog<\/a>, a post emphasizing why Christians should care about the issue of clean water.<br>At the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/14\/world\/middleeast\/14syria.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>, an article about drought and farmland turning into desert in Syria.<br>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2010\/10\/climate-change-deforestation-and-corruption-combine-to-drown-pakistan.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">3quarksdaily<\/a>, an article about water and flooding in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6405397052188081232?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I should get 2010 Blog Action Day started by sharing a few posts related to this year\u2019s theme of water: At CNN\u2019s Belief Blog, a post emphasizing why Christians should care about the issue of clean water.At the New York Times, an article about drought and farmland turning into desert in Syria.At 3quarksdaily, [&hellip;]<\/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-866","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>Blog Action Day: Water<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I thought I should get 2010 Blog Action Day started by sharing a few posts related to this year&#039;s theme of water:At CNN&#039;s Belief Blog, a post emphasizing\" \/>\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\/2010\/10\/blog-action-day-water.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blog Action Day: Water\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I thought I should get 2010 Blog Action Day started by sharing a few posts related to this year&#039;s theme of water:At CNN&#039;s Belief Blog, a post emphasizing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/blog-action-day-water.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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