{"id":29534,"date":"2015-04-08T10:01:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T14:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=29534"},"modified":"2015-04-08T10:01:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T14:01:36","slug":"how-did-luther-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/04\/how-did-luther-die.html","title":{"rendered":"How Did Luther Die?"},"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>I was asked recently how Luther died, and wanted to fact-check what I thought the answer to that question was. So I did what anyone would do \u2013 I typed the question in on Google. Here is the top part of the result:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29535 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/04\/How-Did-Luther-Die.png\" alt=\"How Did Luther Die\" width=\"586\" height=\"534\"><\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one surprised that a question about \u201cLuther\u201d\u00a0gives top results about Luther Vandross, and only after that results about Martin Luther?<\/p>\n<p>The consensus seems to be that Martin Luther died of a stroke, whereas Luther Vandross died of a heart attack. That is not the only difference between these two Luthers. One is also clearly more famous than the other\u2026if Google is anything to go by.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked recently how Luther died, and wanted to fact-check what I thought the answer to that question was. 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