{"id":12756,"date":"2013-02-03T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T13:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=12756"},"modified":"2013-02-03T08:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T13:30:17","slug":"when-churches-try-to-compete-with-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/02\/when-churches-try-to-compete-with-the-super-bowl.html","title":{"rendered":"When Churches Try To Compete With The Super Bowl"},"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:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/02\/wpid-Photo-Feb-3-2013-825-AM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/02\/wpid-Photo-Feb-3-2013-825-AM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"258\" height=\"195\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tillhecomes.org\/church-super-bowl\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeremy Myers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HT Jeremy Myers \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,42],"tags":[1625,1880,2060,2062,3514,4871,11744,12058],"class_list":["post-12756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-humor","tag-cartoon","tag-church","tag-commercial","tag-commercials","tag-football","tag-humor","tag-sports","tag-super-bowl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When Churches Try To Compete With The Super Bowl<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HT Jeremy Myers &nbsp; &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\/2013\/02\/when-churches-try-to-compete-with-the-super-bowl.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When Churches Try To Compete With The Super Bowl\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HT Jeremy Myers &nbsp; &nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/02\/when-churches-try-to-compete-with-the-super-bowl.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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