{"id":28528,"date":"2015-02-09T12:17:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=28528"},"modified":"2015-02-09T12:17:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:17:42","slug":"moses-awaits-the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/02\/moses-awaits-the-word-of-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Moses Awaits the Word of God"},"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 size-full wp-image-28529\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/02\/Moses-Awaits-the-Word-of-God.jpg\" alt=\"Moses Awaits the Word of God\" width=\"550\" height=\"518\"><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>New Yorker<\/em><\/a>. 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