{"id":3271,"date":"2008-12-01T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/i-evolved-from-jesus\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T12:36:00","slug":"i-evolved-from-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/i-evolved-from-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"I Evolved From Jesus"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/jwest.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/01\/take-that-mcgrath-tatusko\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim West<\/a> seems to think that watching this video will cause me to \u201cabandon my ways\u201d:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/p><p>It certainly has cured me of any desire I might have had to sing to a monkey on TV\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2075331210414573463?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim West seems to think that watching this video will cause me to \u201cabandon my ways\u201d: It certainly has cured me of any desire I might have had to sing to a monkey on TV\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I Evolved From Jesus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jim West seems to think that watching this video will cause me to &quot;abandon my ways&quot;:It certainly has cured me of any desire I might have had to sing to a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/i-evolved-from-jesus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I Evolved From Jesus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jim West seems to think that watching this video will cause me to &quot;abandon my ways&quot;:It certainly has cured me of any desire I might have had to sing to a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/i-evolved-from-jesus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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