{"id":21503,"date":"2014-02-09T22:03:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T03:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=21503"},"modified":"2014-02-09T22:03:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T03:03:30","slug":"moses-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/02\/moses-in-winter.html","title":{"rendered":"Moses in Winter"},"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-Feb-9-2014-947-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/02\/wpid-Photo-Feb-9-2014-947-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"370\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The above cartoon from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2012\/12\/slide-show-snow-cartoons.html#slide_ss_0=10\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/a>, \u201cMoses in Connecticut,\u201d could be relocated to many places in the United States at the moment, including Indiana. 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