{"id":1197,"date":"2010-06-14T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/the-world-cup-vs-the-phd\/"},"modified":"2010-06-14T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:20:00","slug":"the-world-cup-vs-the-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/the-world-cup-vs-the-phd.html","title":{"rendered":"The World Cup vs. the PhD"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive\/phd061110s.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive\/phd061110s.gif\"><\/a> <br>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">PHD Comics<\/a> HT <a href=\"http:\/\/westernthm.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/14\/the-world-cup-vs-the-ph-d\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marc Cortez<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/goannatree.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/world-cup-and-phd.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Goannatree<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-606254428356202780?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From PHD Comics HT Marc Cortez\u00a0and Goannatree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","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>The World Cup vs. the PhD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From PHD Comics HT Marc Cortez&nbsp;and Goannatree\" \/>\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\/2010\/06\/the-world-cup-vs-the-phd.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The World Cup vs. the PhD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From PHD Comics HT Marc Cortez&nbsp;and Goannatree\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/the-world-cup-vs-the-phd.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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