{"id":25449,"date":"2014-07-31T15:20:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=25449"},"modified":"2014-07-31T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:20:01","slug":"god-is-my-copilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/07\/god-is-my-copilot.html","title":{"rendered":"God Is My Copilot"},"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  wp-image-25450\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/God-is-my-copilot.jpg\" alt=\"God is my copilot\" width=\"474\" height=\"294\"><\/p>\n<p>I am sure I am not the only one who thinks that bumper-sticker and license-plate theology is not merely misguided, but actually blasphemous.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure I am not the only one who thinks that bumper-sticker and license-plate theology is not merely misguided, but actually blasphemous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":25450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[4010],"class_list":["post-25449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theology","tag-god-is-my-co-pilot"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>God Is My Copilot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I am sure I am not the only one who thinks that bumper-sticker and license-plate theology is not merely misguided, but actually blasphemous.\" \/>\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\/07\/god-is-my-copilot.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"God Is My Copilot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am sure I am not the only one who thinks that bumper-sticker and license-plate theology is not merely misguided, but actually blasphemous.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/07\/god-is-my-copilot.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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