{"id":886,"date":"2007-06-02T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2007-06-02T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T23:33:00","slug":"five-really-more-thinking-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"Five (Really More) Thinking Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erik at Executive Pagan tagged me with the “Thinking Blogger” meme<\/a>. That’s fair enough, since I hit him with the “book pile photo thing<\/a>.” (Mine’s here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

In fact, I read one of his links too: Rod “Crunchy Con”<\/a> Dreher.<\/p>\n

So, setting aside the uber-bloggers like Glenn Reynolds<\/a>, here are five who make me think or delight me with their writing:<\/p>\n

• Ambulance Driver<\/a> is a funny, often moving, and if you’re in emergency medicine (which I am not), informative blog about life aboard a Louisiana ambulance.<\/p>\n

• Rate Your Students<\/a>, now on summer vacation, is a venting space for academics (which I am). Find out what professors really think of their students’ lame excuses.<\/p>\n

• If the universe had take a different twist, I would have become a religion journalist, yet Get Religion<\/a> continues to show me how the job should be — and more often should not be — done. In other words, the press just does not “get” religion as a motivating factor in human affairs.<\/p>\n

• James Lileks is an artist of blogging<\/a>, even though I do not share all of his preoccupations.<\/p>\n

• Querencia<\/a> is written by three guys preoccupied with falconry, archaeology, the literature of natural history and exploration, Central Asia, and dogs. The “book pile” meme has been fruitfully applied there. They’re my blogging heroes.<\/p>\n

Here is the original post that started it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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