{"id":1019,"date":"2012-11-26T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T13:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2012-11-25T20:32:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T00:32:58","slug":"coming-soon-to-hbo-benjamin-walker-as-a-hot-missionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithgoespop\/2012\/11\/coming-soon-to-hbo-benjamin-walker-as-a-hot-missionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon to HBO: Benjamin Walker As a Hot Missionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/14\/2012\/11\/benjamin-walker-missionary-hbo.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1020\" title=\"benjamin-walker-missionary-hbo\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/14\/2012\/11\/benjamin-walker-missionary-hbo-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\"><\/a>HBO is known for making cutting-edge TV like <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, but they haven\u2019t gotten into the religion realm since cancelling <em>Big Love<\/em> in 2010. Now, they\u2019ve announced production on a new series called <em>The Missionary<\/em>, which is about (get this) a missionary. <strong>Benjamin Walker<\/strong>, star of <em>Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter<\/em> and husband of <strong>Mamie Gummer<\/strong>, will play the title role, \u201can American missionary who gets caught up in Cold War intrigue while helping a young woman escape East Berlin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118061850\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">in the press release<\/a> about sex scenes or nudity, but this is HBO we\u2019re dealing with, so let\u2019s hope for the best.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO is known for making cutting-edge TV like Game of Thrones, but they haven\u2019t gotten into the religion realm since cancelling Big Love in 2010. 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