{"id":32080,"date":"2015-10-14T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T19:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=32080"},"modified":"2015-10-14T15:03:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T19:03:45","slug":"caricatured-as-obi-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/10\/caricatured-as-obi-wan.html","title":{"rendered":"Caricatured as Obi-Wan"},"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 class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-32102\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/10\/Caricatured-as-Obi-Wan-Kenobi.jpg\" alt=\"Caricatured as Obi-Wan Kenobi\" width=\"506\" height=\"388\"><\/div>\n<p>Tim \u201cSpike\u201d Davis and I have been having an interesting conversation about guns and other matters about which we don\u2019t see eye to eye. I feel honored that, despite our differences, Spike nonetheless felt I was worthy of being depicted in cartoon form, that in doing so he did not simply render me as Emperor Palpatine (although I do sound a bit like him), and perhaps most of all that he did not simply shoot me with his Wookiee crossbow! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim \u201cSpike\u201d Davis and I have been having an interesting conversation about guns and other matters about which we don\u2019t see eye to eye. 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