{"id":1909,"date":"2009-11-26T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/happy-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2009-11-26T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T00:40:00","slug":"happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/happy-thanksgiving.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving"},"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 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:180%\">Happy Thanksgiving!*<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:courier new;font-size:78%\">* Void in Canada and elsewhere as prohibited by law. 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