{"id":1887,"date":"2009-12-02T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/e-t-phone-rome\/"},"modified":"2009-12-02T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:37:00","slug":"e-t-phone-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/e-t-phone-rome.html","title":{"rendered":"E.T. Phone Rome"},"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>Stephen Colbert touches on the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/vaticanobservatory.org\/GConsolmagno.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vatican<\/a> pronouncement on aliens:<\/p>\n<table style=\"font:11px arial;color:#333;background-color:#f5f5f5\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"360\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color:#e5e5e5\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:2px 1px 0px 5px\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Colbert Report<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:2px 5px 0px 5px;text-align:right;font-weight:bold\">Mon \u2013 Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:14px\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:2px 1px 0px 5px\" colspan=\"2\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/257718\/december-01-2009\/gold--frankincense-and-mars---guy-consolmagno\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gold, Frankincense and Mars \u2013 Guy Consolmagno<\/a><a class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:14px;background-color:#353535\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"padding:2px 5px 0px 5px;width:360px;overflow:hidden;text-align:right\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.colbertnation.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:0px\" colspan=\"2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:18px\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:0px\" colspan=\"2\">\n<table style=\"margin:0px;text-align:center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/colbertreport\/full-episodes\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Colbert Report Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Political Humor<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:3px;width:33%\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/254015\/november-02-2009\/sport-report---nyc-marathon---olympic-speedskating\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S. Speedskating<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandreligiontoday.com\/2009\/12\/02\/brother-guy-consolmagno-on-the-colbert-report\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Science and Religion Today<\/a><br>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7364589279359562276?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert touches on the recent Vatican pronouncement on aliens: The Colbert Report Mon \u2013 Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c Gold, Frankincense and Mars \u2013 Guy Consolmagno www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor U.S. Speedskating HT Science and Religion Today<\/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-1887","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>E.T. 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