{"id":1807,"date":"2009-12-24T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/a-spaceman-came-travelling\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T10:17:00","slug":"a-spaceman-came-travelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/a-spaceman-came-travelling.html","title":{"rendered":"A Spaceman Came Travelling"},"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>One more in the category of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Spaceman_Came_Travelling\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christmas and science fiction<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4087bCXne7s\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris DeBurgh\u2019s song \u201cA Spaceman Came Travelling\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GmZg7tvGN9o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>You can find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsmode.com\/lyrics\/c\/chris_de_burgh\/a_spaceman_came_travelling.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lyrics<\/a> online in lots of places.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5857722221924410463?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more in the category of Christmas and science fiction: Chris DeBurgh\u2019s song \u201cA Spaceman Came Travelling\u201d: You can find the lyrics online in lots of places.<\/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-1807","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 Spaceman Came Travelling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One more in the category of Christmas and science fiction: Chris DeBurgh&#039;s song &quot;A Spaceman Came Travelling&quot;:You can find the lyrics online in lots of\" \/>\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\/2009\/12\/a-spaceman-came-travelling.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Spaceman Came Travelling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One more in the category of Christmas and science fiction: Chris DeBurgh&#039;s song &quot;A Spaceman Came Travelling&quot;:You can find the lyrics online in lots of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/a-spaceman-came-travelling.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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