{"id":98,"date":"2011-07-22T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/07\/thinking-of-jesus-girlfriend\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:01:58","slug":"thinking-of-jesus-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/07\/thinking-of-jesus-girlfriend.html","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of Jesus&#8217; Girlfriend&#8230;"},"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><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">Today is the feast of the wondrous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Magdalene\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mary Magdalene<\/a>, so much more than either the orthodox would have her, or even as she\u2019s portrayed in Dan Brown\u2019s potboiler\u2026\n<p>Anyway, a tip of the hat to the real beloved disciple, the real first apostle, or so I\u2019m pretty sure was the case\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-7553532785898731427?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the feast of the wondrous Mary Magdalene, so much more than either the orthodox would have her, or even as she\u2019s portrayed in Dan Brown\u2019s potboiler\u2026 Anyway, a tip of the hat to the real beloved disciple, the real first apostle, or so I\u2019m pretty sure was the case\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thinking of Jesus&#039; 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