{"id":16594,"date":"2013-08-11T08:17:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T12:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=16594"},"modified":"2013-08-11T08:17:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T12:17:21","slug":"an-abridged-history-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/08\/an-abridged-history-of-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"An Abridged History of the World"},"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-16595\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/08\/Abridged-History-of-the-World.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"311\"><\/p>\n<p>via Facebook. This is not the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/12\/abridged-history-of-christmas.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">abridged history<\/a> I\u2019ve come across and shared here. Please feel free to tell me about others! And it isn\u2019t just\u00a0<em>videos<\/em> of cats that are being shared, as this picture I came across recently provides but one example of\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16597\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/08\/Mona-Lisa-with-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"587\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Facebook. This is not the first abridged history I\u2019ve come across and shared here. Please feel free to tell me about others! And it isn\u2019t just\u00a0videos of cats that are being shared, as this picture I came across recently provides but one example of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":16595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,42],"tags":[303,1651,4660,4871,13867],"class_list":["post-16594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-humor","tag-abridged","tag-cats","tag-history","tag-humor","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An Abridged History of the World<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"via Facebook. This is not the first abridged history I&#039;ve come across and shared here. Please feel free to tell me about others! 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