{"id":19870,"date":"2013-12-13T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=19870"},"modified":"2013-12-13T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:00:03","slug":"jedi-jesus-and-santa-on-a-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/12\/jedi-jesus-and-santa-on-a-dinosaur.html","title":{"rendered":"Jedi Jesus and Santa on a Dinosaur"},"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\/12\/wpid-Photo-Dec-13-2013-953-AM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/12\/wpid-Photo-Dec-13-2013-953-AM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"541\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I have no idea what this picture means. 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