{"id":20015,"date":"2013-12-20T09:29:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T14:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=20015"},"modified":"2013-12-20T09:29:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T14:29:13","slug":"have-a-logical-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/12\/have-a-logical-holiday-season.html","title":{"rendered":"Have a Logical Holiday Season"},"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\/Spock-Christmas-Sweater.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/12\/Spock-Christmas-Sweater.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20020\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\">I was surprised that, having come across this image recently (I added the words), it isn't the only image focused on Spock in a Christmas sweater. Here's one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/morelikethis\/artists\/306423435?view_mode=2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anubis-Admirer<\/a>:<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/12\/christmas_sweater_by_anubis_admirer-d52fpd5.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/12\/christmas_sweater_by_anubis_admirer-d52fpd5.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20022\" width=\"496\" height=\"900\" alt=\"\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/12\/mr-spock-logical-new-year.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/12\/mr-spock-logical-new-year.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20021\" width=\"236\" height=\"288\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised that, having come across this image recently (I added the words), it isn&#8217;t the only image focused on Spock in a Christmas sweater. 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