{"id":3198,"date":"2008-12-24T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/merry-christmas-3\/"},"modified":"2008-12-24T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:00:00","slug":"merry-christmas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/merry-christmas-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"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 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:180%\"><span style=\"color:#cc0000\">M<\/span><span style=\"color:#009900\">e<\/span><span style=\"color:#ff0000\">r<\/span><span style=\"color:#336666\">r<\/span><span style=\"color:#cc0000\">y<\/span> <span style=\"color:#009900\">C<span style=\"color:#cc0000\">h<\/span>r<span style=\"color:#cc0000\">i<\/span>s<span style=\"color:#ff0000\">t<\/span>m<span style=\"color:#cc0000\">a<\/span>s<\/span><span style=\"color:#ff0000\">!<\/span><\/span>*<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%\">*  This Christmas greeting is offered in accordance with the <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/articles-of-christmas.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">articles of Christmas<\/a> previously posted. 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