{"id":934,"date":"2010-09-24T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/david-and-goliath-in-live-action-legos\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T10:42:00","slug":"david-and-goliath-in-live-action-legos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/david-and-goliath-in-live-action-legos.html","title":{"rendered":"David and Goliath in Live-Action Legos!"},"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>Students in my classes, and I myself, regularly use images from <a href=\"http:\/\/thebricktestament.com\/king_saul\/david_decapitates_goliath\/1s17_49a.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Brick Testament<\/a> in powerpoint presentations. But this is the first time I\u2019ve come across a live-action rendition of a Biblical story using LEGOs.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/ueIMqO08XlM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0<br>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/keithreich.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/david-and-goliath-in-legos.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Know Thyself<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8061458592209508257?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in my classes, and I myself, regularly use images from The Brick Testament in powerpoint presentations. 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