{"id":1501,"date":"2010-03-12T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/a-positive-slant\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T23:06:00","slug":"a-positive-slant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/a-positive-slant.html","title":{"rendered":"A Positive Slant"},"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>If you click through to the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/2010\/03\/the_inclined_treadmill_what_wo.php?utm_source=selectfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">science blog post<\/a> from which I got this image, you\u2019ll learn just what an awful pun I\u2019ve made\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/upload\/2010\/03\/the_inclined_treadmill_what_wo\/633735791510989610-Anescalatorcanneverbreak.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/upload\/2010\/03\/the_inclined_treadmill_what_wo\/633735791510989610-Anescalatorcanneverbreak.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6970182847450921624?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you click through to the science blog post from which I got this image, you\u2019ll learn just what an awful pun I\u2019ve made\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Positive Slant<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you click through to the science blog post from which I got this image, you&#039;ll learn just what an awful pun I&#039;ve made...\" \/>\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\/2010\/03\/a-positive-slant.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Positive Slant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you click through to the science blog post from which I got this image, you&#039;ll learn just what an awful pun I&#039;ve made...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/03\/a-positive-slant.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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