{"id":2725,"date":"2010-12-19T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/the-war-on-westmas-heats-up\/"},"modified":"2010-12-19T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T18:07:00","slug":"the-war-on-westmas-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/the-war-on-westmas-heats-up.html","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;War on Westmas&#8221; heats up"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/drjimsthinkingshop.com\/2010\/12\/19\/happy-christmas-war-is-over-blog-rates-and-rankings\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim Linville offers a roundup<\/a> of how things are heating up in the biblioblogosphere. 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