It\u2019s the night of the living dead zombie blog!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nYou\u2019ll definitely want to check this out, but given what we know about zombies \u2013 and what we know about Jim\u2019s sense of humor \u2013 you have double the reason to keep a close eye on your brains when you do!<\/p>\n
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But seriously (no, really) \u2013 welcome back, Jim, to the land of the living blogs. Your humor has been missed!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If Jim Linville\u2019s blog had been dead for a mere three days, we might say it was resurrected, or that it had only in fact been mostly dead. But his blog was dead. It was nailed to the biblioblogosphere. It was an ex-blog. But now it\u2019s back, and that can only mean one thing\u2026 It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,42],"tags":[1249,5733,10276,14077],"class_list":["post-9682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblioblogging-bible","category-humor","tag-blog","tag-jim-linville","tag-resurrection","tag-zombie"],"yoast_head":"\n
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