{"id":22106,"date":"2014-03-07T10:50:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T15:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=22106"},"modified":"2014-03-07T10:50:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T15:50:51","slug":"sauron-is-going-after-christians-on-amazon-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/03\/sauron-is-going-after-christians-on-amazon-com.html","title":{"rendered":"Sauron is Going After Christians on Amazon.com"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22107\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/03\/Lords-Prayer-ring-Arabic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"720\"><\/p>\n<p>I suppose one could call it the lord\u2019s prayer\u2026but the \u201clord\u201d in \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d is usually considered to be a different \u201clord\u201d than the one in \u201cLord\u2019s Prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose one could call it the lord\u2019s prayer\u2026but the \u201clord\u201d in \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d is usually considered to be a different \u201clord\u201d than the one in \u201cLord\u2019s Prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":22107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,56],"tags":[5479,6705,6708,10411,10811],"class_list":["post-22106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-lord-of-the-rings-fantasy","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-lords-prayer","tag-ring","tag-sauron"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sauron is Going After Christians on Amazon.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I suppose one could call it the lord&#039;s prayer...but the &quot;lord&quot; in &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot; is usually considered to be a different &quot;lord&quot; than the one in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/03\/sauron-is-going-after-christians-on-amazon-com.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sauron is Going After Christians on Amazon.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I suppose one could call it the lord&#039;s prayer...but the &quot;lord&quot; in &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot; is usually considered to be a different &quot;lord&quot; than the one in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/03\/sauron-is-going-after-christians-on-amazon-com.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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