{"id":940,"date":"2010-09-21T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/the-discipline-of-daily-writing\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T14:39:00","slug":"the-discipline-of-daily-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/the-discipline-of-daily-writing.html","title":{"rendered":"The Discipline of Daily Writing"},"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 of the role blogs play for some of us when I saw this cartoon in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/comment\/2010\/09\/27\/100927taco_talk_lemann\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>New Yorker<\/em> article about education<\/a> (which <a href=\"http:\/\/targuman.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/american-educational-crisis-isnt-all-that\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Brady shared<\/a>):<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randomcartoon.s3.amazonaws.com\/126371.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/randomcartoon.s3.amazonaws.com\/126371.JPG\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4267831256144391184?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought of the role blogs play for some of us when I saw this cartoon in a New Yorker article about education (which Chris Brady shared):<\/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-940","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>The Discipline of Daily Writing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I thought of the role blogs play for some of us when I saw this cartoon in a New Yorker article about education (which Chris Brady shared):\" \/>\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\/09\/the-discipline-of-daily-writing.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Discipline of Daily Writing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I thought of the role blogs play for some of us when I saw this cartoon in a New Yorker article about education (which Chris Brady shared):\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/the-discipline-of-daily-writing.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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