{"id":403,"date":"2008-06-11T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/06\/watch-me-decode-the-past.html"},"modified":"2008-06-11T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T11:39:00","slug":"watch-me-decode-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/06\/watch-me-decode-the-past.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch Me Decode the Past!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);\">One of the weird things <\/span>about writing historical (albeit entertaining) books like the Pocket Guides is that it makes you an &#8220;expert&#8221; on the subject matter.  Sort of. Which means I am an expert on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pocket-Guide-Apocalypse-Official-Manual\/dp\/0976035715\/sr=1-1\/qid=1170712263\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-3527413-5532005?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\">book of Revelation<\/a>. And I&#8217;m an expert on the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>So occasionally I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to be an expert on TV. I think producers like me because I&#8217;m not an old, fusty professor-looking kind of person. And because I&#8217;m good with a sound bite. On a few different occasions I&#8217;ve flown to L.A. and been interviewed for two hours in a studio. Then, a year later, get to watch about 40 seconds of myself on TV. It is exactly as glamorous as that sounds.<\/p>\n<p>For kicks, I put together a clip show of one of these appearances, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\">History Channel<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/media.do?id=mysteries_gardenofeden_broadband&#038;action=clip\">Decoding the Past: Searching for the Garden of Eden<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YL8P8JPK2Mg\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YL8P8JPK2Mg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the weird things about writing historical (albeit entertaining) books like the Pocket Guides is that it makes you an &#8220;expert&#8221; on the subject matter. Sort of. Which means I am an expert on the book of Revelation. And I&#8217;m an expert on the Bible. Right. 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