{"id":2593,"date":"2011-05-20T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/taken-up-or-should-i-say-raptured-by-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:11:00","slug":"taken-up-or-should-i-say-raptured-by-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/taken-up-or-should-i-say-raptured-by-the-washington-post.html","title":{"rendered":"Taken Up (or should I say &#8220;Raptured&#8221;?) by the Washington Post"},"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>My recent piece on the Rapture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/patheos-on-faith\/post\/why-may-21-2011-isnt-the-end-of-the-world\/2011\/05\/20\/AFoL3u7G_blog.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">has been picked up by the <i>Washington Post<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1955905096167717589?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My recent piece on the Rapture has been picked up by the Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taken Up (or should I say &quot;Raptured&quot;?) by the Washington Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My recent piece on the Rapture has been picked up by the Washington Post.\" \/>\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\/2011\/05\/taken-up-or-should-i-say-raptured-by-the-washington-post.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taken Up (or should I say &quot;Raptured&quot;?) by the Washington Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My recent piece on the Rapture has been picked up by the Washington Post.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/taken-up-or-should-i-say-raptured-by-the-washington-post.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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