{"id":30002,"date":"2015-04-29T18:09:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T22:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=30002"},"modified":"2015-04-29T18:09:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T22:09:30","slug":"does-this-get-your-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/04\/does-this-get-your-goat.html","title":{"rendered":"Does This Get Your Goat?"},"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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-30003\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/04\/goat-request.png\" alt=\"goat request\" width=\"449\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<p>As you can see above, a friend of mine asked on Facebook whether anyone they know has a goat.<\/p>\n<p>As I said in my comment, that is the first time I have encountered a goat request on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the oddest request you\u2019ve encountered on social media? And how will\u00a0the fact that one can ask for a goat by this means \u2013\u00a0and get one on short notice, apparently \u2013 change the way we live our lives?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As you can see above, a friend of mine asked on Facebook whether anyone they know has a goat. As I said in my comment, that is the first time I have encountered a goat request on Facebook. What\u2019s the oddest request you\u2019ve encountered on social media? 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