{"id":10881,"date":"2012-12-12T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=10881"},"modified":"2012-12-12T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:58:51","slug":"while-shepherds-watched-their-blogs-by-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/12\/while-shepherds-watched-their-blogs-by-night.html","title":{"rendered":"While Shepherds Watched Their Blogs By Night"},"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>Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/christmas-card-for-bloggers-2.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">a Christmas card that came to my attention a few years ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10882\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/11\/blog-card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p>The caption says \u201cOH, I AM\u00a0<em>SO<\/em> BLOGGING ABOUT THIS.\u201d <del>Unfortunately I can\u2019t actually find a place to purchase them online<\/del> \u00a0Thanks to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/12\/while-shepherds-watched-their-blogs-by-night.html#comment-734098565\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">commenter<\/a>, I can <a href=\"http:\/\/store.wondermark.com\/products\/cards\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">direct readers interested in buying them to Wondermark Brand Dry-Goods<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a Christmas card that came to my attention a few years ago: The caption says \u201cOH, I AM\u00a0SO BLOGGING ABOUT THIS.\u201d Unfortunately I can\u2019t actually find a place to purchase them online \u00a0Thanks to a commenter, I can direct readers interested in buying them to Wondermark Brand Dry-Goods!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,42],"tags":[1254,1586,1852,3686,4871],"class_list":["post-10881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblioblogging-bible","category-humor","tag-blogging","tag-card","tag-christmas","tag-funny","tag-humor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>While Shepherds Watched Their Blogs By Night<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here&#039;s a Christmas card that came to my attention a few years ago: The caption says &quot;OH, I AM\u00a0SO BLOGGING ABOUT THIS.&quot; Unfortunately I can&#039;t actually find\" \/>\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\/2012\/12\/while-shepherds-watched-their-blogs-by-night.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"While Shepherds Watched Their Blogs By Night\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#039;s a Christmas card that came to my attention a few years ago: The caption says &quot;OH, I AM\u00a0SO BLOGGING ABOUT THIS.&quot; Unfortunately I can&#039;t actually find\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/12\/while-shepherds-watched-their-blogs-by-night.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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