{"id":898,"date":"2009-07-24T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2009\/07\/moon-madness\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:09:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:09:30","slug":"moon-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2009\/07\/moon-madness.html","title":{"rendered":"Moon Madness"},"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>On this day in 1948, one of my favorite minor Looney Toons characters was \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haredevil_Hare\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">born<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3HkxibhxPT4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3HkxibhxPT4<\/a>\n<p>A Chuck Jones &amp; 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