{"id":21729,"date":"2014-02-18T12:05:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=21729"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:05:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:05:14","slug":"moot-point-for-snowmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/02\/moot-point-for-snowmen.html","title":{"rendered":"Moot Point for Snowmen"},"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-17-2014-1002-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-17-2014-1002-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"162\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/nonsequitur\/2014\/02\/14#.UwLNQ3-9KSM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Friday's Non Sequitur<\/a>. 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