{"id":1243,"date":"2005-09-29T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/09\/blogosphere_heavyweights\/"},"modified":"2005-09-29T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T20:00:56","slug":"blogosphere_heavyweights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/09\/blogosphere_heavyweights.html","title":{"rendered":"BLOGOSPHERE HEAVYWEIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realm-of-shade.com\/RomanaeAntiquae\/religion.html\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Vestal Virgin, seen in the Roman Forum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realm-of-shade.com\/RomanaeAntiquae\/sinvocation.jpg\" width=120 align=left border=0 \/><\/a> Now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/nora-ephron\/one-small-blog_b_8028.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>the world is one big blog<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, God may become a blogger, too. That&#8217;s not a certainty, of course, we&#8217;re merely speculating. But at the very least He&#8217;s about to get his own first-ever God Blog Convention two weeks from now in southern California.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.godblogcon.com\/index.php?id=60\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The God Blog Convention runs Oct. 13-15 at Biola University in La Mirada, Ca.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.godblogcon.com\/buttons\/small1.png\" width=160 align=right border=0 \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godblogcon.com\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>GodBlogCon<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, as it&#8217;s being called, will feature keynote speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godblogcon.com\/index.php?id=17\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399> Hugh Hewitt<\/font><\/strong><\/a> and other religionaires, evangelicals, pastors, biblical scholars,  and &#8212; though we&#8217;re not sure of this &#8212; possibly a handful of pre-Christian <a href=\"http:\/\/sights.seindal.dk\/sight\/318_Vestal_Virgins.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Vestal Virigins<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, like the old-fashioned one pictured above, just to add a chorus line.<br \/>\nSince the gathering is &#8220;designed to mobilize the Christian blogging community,&#8221; no Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Taoists, Hindus, Zen Budhhists, Confucians, Zoroastrians, Shintos, Copts, Surrealists, Animists, Shamanists, Sikhs, Jains, Babis, Baha&#8217;is, Rastafarians,  Neo-Paganists, Agnostics, Atheists, or Scientologists are expected. In any case, attendance will be limited to 300 lucky folks eager to find out what the God bloggers have in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the world is one big blog, God may become a blogger, too. That&#8217;s not a certainty, of course, we&#8217;re merely speculating. But at the very least He&#8217;s about to get his own first-ever God Blog Convention two weeks from now in southern California. GodBlogCon, as it&#8217;s being called, will feature keynote speaker Vestal Virigins, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-k3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}