{"id":1065,"date":"2011-08-05T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T20:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2011-08-05T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T20:51:19","slug":"the-story-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/the-story-so-far.html","title":{"rendered":"The Story So Far"},"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><figure style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-3Mes_fxdpKU\/Tjt5TS__duI\/AAAAAAAABjQ\/l8lFI-WPW8o\/s640\/The+Story+So+Far.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"448\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Douglas Adams, in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thatjeffcarterwashere.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/story-so-far.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">that jeffcarter was here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via that jeffcarter was here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,86],"tags":[2269,2825,12475,13172],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-science-fiction","tag-creation","tag-douglas-adams","tag-the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe","tag-universe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Story So Far<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"via that jeffcarter was here\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/the-story-so-far.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Story So Far\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"via that jeffcarter was here\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/the-story-so-far.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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