{"id":24082,"date":"2014-05-30T13:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T17:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=24082"},"modified":"2014-05-30T13:34:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T17:34:49","slug":"the-fate-of-the-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/05\/the-fate-of-the-dinosaurs.html","title":{"rendered":"The Fate of the Dinosaurs"},"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\/05\/wpid-Photo-20140530083605.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/05\/wpid-Photo-20140530083605.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"154\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Seems legit \u2013 and it dovetails nicely with my post yesterday about photographic evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The maker of the cartoon, Carlos Ruas, is not a native English speaker, it would seem, and so I think he deserves to be forgiven for using the wrong spelling of \u201cark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onceuponasaturday.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Once Upon a Saturday<\/a>, via God of Evolution<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems legit \u2013 and it dovetails nicely with my post yesterday about photographic evidence. 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