{"id":18010,"date":"2013-10-03T21:59:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T01:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=18010"},"modified":"2013-10-03T21:59:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T01:59:22","slug":"magi-not-jedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/10\/magi-not-jedi.html","title":{"rendered":"Magi, Not Jedi"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00BD7358I\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00BD7358I&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I saw this clock on Amazon.com and thought I\u2019d share it. <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00BD7358I\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">\u00a0It will make a good Christmas gift for religion professors who are also Star Wars fans, if not for anyone else\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00BD7358I\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00BD7358I&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18011\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/10\/Magi-not-Jedi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this clock on Amazon.com and thought I\u2019d share it. \u00a0It will make a good Christmas gift for religion professors who are also Star Wars fans, if not for anyone else\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":18011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,34,42,91],"tags":[1852,1955,5612,6853,11822],"class_list":["post-18010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-gospel-of-matthew","category-humor","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-christmas","tag-clock","tag-jedi","tag-magi","tag-star-wars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Magi, Not Jedi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I saw this clock on Amazon.com and thought I&#039;d share it. \u00a0It will make a good Christmas gift for religion professors who are also Star Wars fans, if not\" \/>\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\/2013\/10\/magi-not-jedi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Magi, Not Jedi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I saw this clock on Amazon.com and thought I&#039;d share it. \u00a0It will make a good Christmas gift for religion professors who are also Star Wars fans, if not\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/10\/magi-not-jedi.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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