{"id":13554,"date":"2013-03-21T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T17:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=13554"},"modified":"2013-03-21T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T17:37:05","slug":"brace-yourself-spring-is-not-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/03\/brace-yourself-spring-is-not-coming.html","title":{"rendered":"Brace Yourself: Spring is Not Coming"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-13555\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/03\/Brace-Yourself-Spring-is-Not-Coming.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"382\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/tb\/1aqbip\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The image appeared in a Polish newspaper (HT Reddit)<\/a> and is clearly worth sharing!<\/p>\n<p>I also like this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/photos\/181534\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13558\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/03\/Brace-Yourself.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image appeared in a Polish newspaper (HT Reddit) and is clearly worth sharing! 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