{"id":29934,"date":"2015-05-03T06:17:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T10:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=29934"},"modified":"2015-05-03T06:17:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T10:17:46","slug":"at-the-pearly-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/05\/at-the-pearly-gates.html","title":{"rendered":"At The Pearly Gates"},"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-29936\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/04\/at-the-pearly-gates.jpg\" alt=\"at-the-pearly-gates\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\"><\/p>\n<p>A cartoon by <a href=\"https:\/\/wronghands1.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/13\/at-the-pearly-gates\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Atkinson<\/a>.\u00a0St. Peter could have used this one by <a href=\"http:\/\/sircolby.com\/cartoons\/a-pastor-a-priest-and-a-rabbi\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Colby Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-30071\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/05\/Walk-into-a-bar.jpg\" alt=\"Walk into a bar\" width=\"434\" height=\"399\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cartoon by John Atkinson.\u00a0St. Peter could have used this one by Colby Jones: \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":29936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,42],"tags":[1625,5887,7486,8875,9507,9877,11789],"class_list":["post-29934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afterlife-theology","category-humor","tag-cartoon","tag-joke","tag-minister","tag-pearly-gates","tag-priest","tag-rabbi","tag-st-peter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>At The Pearly Gates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A cartoon by John Atkinson.\u00a0St. Peter could have used this one by Colby Jones:  &nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/05\/at-the-pearly-gates.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"At The Pearly Gates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A cartoon by John Atkinson.\u00a0St. Peter could have used this one by Colby Jones:  &nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/05\/at-the-pearly-gates.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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