{"id":27646,"date":"2015-01-15T06:34:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T11:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=27646"},"modified":"2015-01-15T06:34:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T11:34:58","slug":"brown-bag-talk-on-the-mandaeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/01\/brown-bag-talk-on-the-mandaeans.html","title":{"rendered":"Brown Bag Talk on the Mandaeans"},"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-27647\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/12\/McGrath-Mandaean-Brown-Bag-Poster-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"McGrath8.5x11\" width=\"435\" height=\"562\"><\/p>\n<p>I am very impressed with the poster that Rebecca DeGrazia made for my upcoming brown bag lunchtime talk on the Mandaeans. 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