{"id":12982,"date":"2013-02-15T14:48:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=12982"},"modified":"2013-02-15T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:48:41","slug":"genesis-3-how-it-should-have-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/02\/genesis-3-how-it-should-have-ended.html","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 3: How It Should Have Ended"},"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\/2013\/02\/wpid-Photo-Feb-15-2013-244-PM.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-15-2013-244-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"300\" height=\"329\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p> Today's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedbump.com\/cg_speedbump.php\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Speed Bump<\/a>. 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