{"id":31854,"date":"2015-09-19T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=31854"},"modified":"2015-09-19T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T15:04:47","slug":"its-the-jedi-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/09\/its-the-jedi-way.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Jedi Way"},"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  wp-image-31855\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/09\/Didn%E2%80%99t-actually-like-Star-Wars-Still-Did-His-Job.png\" alt=\"Didn\u2019t actually like Star Wars Still Did His Job\" width=\"563\" height=\"317\"><\/p>\n<p>It is well known that Alec Guinness did not think at all highly about Star Wars. But he had been hired to play a role, and he did so, and did it well. And so I am surprised that, to my knowledge, no one had added him to the ever-growing collection of \u201cstill did their job\u201d memes. Until now, that is.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well known that Alec Guinness did not think at all highly about Star Wars. But he had been hired to play a role, and he did so, and did it well. 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