{"id":14081,"date":"2013-04-17T17:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T21:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=14081"},"modified":"2013-04-17T17:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T21:50:02","slug":"promised-land-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/04\/promised-land-expressway.html","title":{"rendered":"Promised Land Expressway"},"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\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-17-2013-545-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-17-2013-545-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"162\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p> Today's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Non Sequitur<\/a> is on a Biblical theme once again. It is rather silly, but then so too are those who make assumptions about the historicity of the Exodus story without knowing where the ancient Egyptian toll roads in the region were.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Non Sequitur is on a Biblical theme once again. 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