{"id":22318,"date":"2014-03-16T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T01:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=22318"},"modified":"2014-03-16T21:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T01:02:15","slug":"breaking-news-tomorrow-there-will-be-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/03\/breaking-news-tomorrow-there-will-be-breaking-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News! 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And so what do you think it is? Suggest something really exciting, really unlikely, really funny, whatever. If it turns out that you are right, you will be rewarded, as always, with a deep sense of satisfaction, as you point people to your comment here and say \u201cSee, I called it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/03\/wpid-Photo-20140316210213.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/03\/wpid-Photo-20140316210213.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"472\" height=\"457\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via IO9 I learned that the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has news so important that it needed to tell us today that they will tell us tomorrow. 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