{"id":29869,"date":"2015-05-05T06:41:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=29869"},"modified":"2015-05-05T06:41:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:41:48","slug":"vote-for-donuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/05\/vote-for-donuts.html","title":{"rendered":"Vote for Donuts"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29868\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/04\/wpid-Photo-20150426134145648.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-Photo-20150426134145648.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"190\"><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pearls Before Swine<\/a> comic offers a different perspective on creationism and evolution. Often people debate big picture worldview questions, and don\u2019t realize that\u00a0neither appeals, because both seem irrelevant to real life and its daily concerns. Like donuts.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Pearls Before Swine comic offers a different perspective on creationism and evolution. Often people debate big picture worldview questions, and don\u2019t realize that\u00a0neither appeals, because both seem irrelevant to real life and its daily concerns. 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