{"id":18215,"date":"2013-10-12T07:02:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T11:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=18215"},"modified":"2013-10-12T07:02:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T11:02:24","slug":"stormtroopers-and-redshirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/10\/stormtroopers-and-redshirts.html","title":{"rendered":"Stormtroopers and Redshirts"},"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\/10\/wpid-Photo-Oct-11-2013-1159-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/10\/wpid-Photo-Oct-11-2013-1159-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"486\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoeboxblog.com\/?p=18747\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chuck and Beans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Chuck and Beans \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,90,91],"tags":[1625,1877,3686,3736,4871,10099,11819,11822,11946],"class_list":["post-18215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-star-trek-science-fiction","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-cartoon","tag-chuck-and-beans","tag-funny","tag-game","tag-humor","tag-redshirts","tag-star-trek","tag-star-wars","tag-stormtroopers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stormtroopers and Redshirts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From Chuck and Beans &nbsp;\" \/>\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\/stormtroopers-and-redshirts.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stormtroopers and Redshirts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Chuck and Beans &nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/10\/stormtroopers-and-redshirts.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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