{"id":3341,"date":"2014-06-30T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:07:00","slug":"mcluhan-and-the-world-as-a-global-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/06\/mcluhan-and-the-world-as-a-global-village.html","title":{"rendered":"McLuhan and the World as a Global Village"},"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><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HeDnPP6ntic?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When did the so-called \u201cglobal village\u201d begin?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Marshall McLuhan, the great communications theorist, suggested that it began with the invention of the television and telephone. \u00a0The host of the short clip above notes that before the invention of these gadgets, books were our only link to the greater world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Below, Black Adder reminds us how daunting the first book must have been.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aX0-nqRmtos?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When did the so-called \u201cglobal village\u201d begin? 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