{"id":11705,"date":"2012-12-24T00:04:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T05:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=11705"},"modified":"2012-12-24T00:04:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T05:04:54","slug":"merry-whomas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/12\/merry-whomas-eve.html","title":{"rendered":"Merry Whomas Eve!"},"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 class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/12\/wpid-Photo-Dec-23-2012-758-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/12\/wpid-Photo-Dec-23-2012-758-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/12\/wpid-Photo-Dec-23-2012-752-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/12\/wpid-Photo-Dec-23-2012-752-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/12\/wpid-Photo-Dec-23-2012-617-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/12\/wpid-Photo-Dec-23-2012-617-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/12\/wpid-Photo-Dec-23-2012-825-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/12\/wpid-Photo-Dec-23-2012-825-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"400\" height=\"316\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"> Doctor Who is on TV tomorrow with a brand new episode, this year's Christmas special!<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Who is on TV tomorrow with a brand new episode, this year&#8217;s Christmas special! \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,1],"tags":[1852,2765,3206,11490,11658,13011],"class_list":["post-11705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who-science-fiction","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-doctor-who","tag-eve","tag-snowmen","tag-special","tag-tv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Merry Whomas Eve!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Doctor Who is on TV tomorrow with a brand new episode, this year&#039;s Christmas special! &nbsp;\" \/>\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\/merry-whomas-eve.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merry Whomas Eve!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Doctor Who is on TV tomorrow with a brand new episode, this year&#039;s Christmas special! &nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/12\/merry-whomas-eve.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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