{"id":13623,"date":"2013-03-25T12:27:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T16:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=13623"},"modified":"2013-03-25T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T16:27:53","slug":"im-dreaming-of-a-white-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/03\/im-dreaming-of-a-white-easter.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Dreaming of a White Easter"},"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>Today in my class on the Bible, we talked about the crucifixion. In my class on the Gospel of John, we are entering the passion narrative. And this is what the Butler University campus looks like today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-13624\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/03\/1-Hege-snow-3-25-2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"447\"><\/p>\n<p>It certainly creates a holiday mood\u2026but not for the holiday I was expecting people to have their minds on when I made my syllabi!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in my class on the Bible, we talked about the crucifixion. In my class on the Gospel of John, we are entering the passion narrative. 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