{"id":845,"date":"2008-08-11T21:57:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T05:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/08\/11\/a-little-eclectica\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T21:57:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T05:57:25","slug":"a-little-eclectica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/08\/11\/a-little-eclectica\/","title":{"rendered":"a little eclectica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the midst of rebuilding my lawn after having a new $eptic $y$tem installed, so I am too busy for blogging. But let me note a few things of interest to me lately&#8230;<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2008\/11aug_lcross.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Nasa is Taking Shots at the Moon<\/a><\/h5>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are places on the Moon where the sun hasn&#8217;t shined for millions of years [sic]. Dark polar craters too deep for sunlight to penetrate are <em>luna incognita<\/em>, the realm of the unknown, and in their inky depths, researchers believe, may lie a treasure of great value. <\/p>\n<p>NASA is about to light one up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctliveblog\/archives\/2008\/08\/the_list_histor.html\" target=\"_blank\">For Church History Buffs<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Christianity Today&#8217;s Liveblog provices a list of favorite Church history sites. Two I knew about, but three are new and look promising.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianchristianity.com\/nationalupdates\/080807game.html\" target=\"_blank\">So, what do you think of Video Games?<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The Canadian Christianity site has an article that raises some concerns about the addiction of many to gaming. A real concern, I think, but a typically too weak response in our child-centered era. (I think every branch of conservative Christianity is too weak on this, including Fundamentalism.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And last, for now&#8230;<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctliveblog\/archives\/2008\/08\/common_word_con_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">What gives with this Muslim-Christian conference?<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>And did the Christians involved give away too much in the process? And what should a prominent Minnesota Baptist pastor say to another prominent Minnesota Baptist pastor this time? [Probably he should say more than he will say, I reckon.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/don-sig24.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the midst of rebuilding my lawn after having a new $eptic $y$tem installed, so I am too busy for blogging. But let me note a few things of interest to me lately&#8230; Nasa is Taking Shots at the Moon There are places on the Moon where the sun hasn&#8217;t shined for millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[78,71,44,56,67],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-dD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}