{"id":21231,"date":"2014-02-02T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T17:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=21231"},"modified":"2014-02-02T12:50:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T17:50:47","slug":"saganism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/02\/saganism.html","title":{"rendered":"Saganism"},"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\/2014\/02\/wpid-Photo-Jan-28-2014-958-AM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/02\/wpid-Photo-Jan-28-2014-958-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/02\/wpid-Photo-Feb-1-2014-942-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/02\/wpid-Photo-Feb-1-2014-942-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"302\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>These two quotes both came my way on Facebook. Both have been well known. I wonder what new and interesting things will come out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/23567-carl-sagan-archive-library-of-congress.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the new Carl Sagan archive that was recently made public by the Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two quotes both came my way on Facebook. Both have been well known. 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