{"id":1855,"date":"2009-12-10T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/the-greatest-action-story-ever-told\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:05:00","slug":"the-greatest-action-story-ever-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/the-greatest-action-story-ever-told.html","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Action Story Ever Told"},"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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Greatest Action Story Ever Told\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PFrufPxjwX0?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><p>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/sollythen.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anthony Solomon<\/a> on Facebook (I\u2019d seen the first part of this before, but not the whole thing)<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2649310434244673049?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HT Anthony Solomon on Facebook (I\u2019d seen the first part of this before, but not the whole thing)<\/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-1855","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>The Greatest Action Story Ever Told<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HT Anthony Solomon on Facebook (I&#039;d seen the first part of this before, but not the whole thing)\" \/>\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\/the-greatest-action-story-ever-told.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Greatest Action Story Ever Told\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HT Anthony Solomon on Facebook (I&#039;d seen the first part of this before, but not the whole thing)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/the-greatest-action-story-ever-told.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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