{"id":1949,"date":"2012-09-27T22:09:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T03:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2012-09-27T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T03:10:02","slug":"september-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/september-27\/","title":{"rendered":"September 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1670847\/watch-the-most-epic-lego-contraption-of-all-time\">most epic Lego contraption<\/a> of all time?<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/weekend\/magazine\/benny-morris-on-why-he-s-written-his-last-word-on-the-israel-arab-conflict.premium-1.465869\">remarkable interview<\/a> with a long-time left-wing Israeli historian who now believes that there can be no peace with the Palestinians. (Free reg. may be req &#8216;d.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennyburk.com\/mclaren-presides-over-same-sex-commitment-ceremony\/\">Brian McLaren<\/a>, who promotes a &#8220;new kind of Christianity,&#8221; recently presided over his son&#8217;s same-sex commitment ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>You can teach one course at Harvard and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/26\/us\/politics\/in-massachusetts-brown-attacks-warrens-character.html\">make $282,000<\/a> for the year. That&#8217;s slightly more than what I expect to be offered by TMC for teaching 8 classes.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t do many reviews on Amazon, but I just did one for MacArthur&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0736938419\/713713713-20\">The Majesty of Prayer<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry for being a lame blogger. Today I began writing (the actual writing!) of my dissertation. By word count, I&#8217;m 1\/25 done. In reality, it&#8217;s a little more complicated than that but it&#8217;s nice to be underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the most epic Lego contraption of all time? This is a remarkable interview with a long-time left-wing Israeli historian who now believes that there can be no peace with the Palestinians. (Free reg. may be req &#8216;d.) Brian McLaren, who promotes a &#8220;new kind of Christianity,&#8221; recently presided over his son&#8217;s same-sex commitment\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/september-27\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}