{"id":3007,"date":"2009-12-10T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/im-a-twit\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T13:25:00","slug":"im-a-twit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/im-a-twit.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Twit"},"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>Or at least, I think that\u2019s what you say when you finally cave in and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ReligionProf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sign up for Twitter<\/a>. 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