{"id":388,"date":"2011-02-02T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/happy-groundhog-day-with-a-hint-of-sci-fi\/"},"modified":"2011-02-02T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T09:27:00","slug":"happy-groundhog-day-with-a-hint-of-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/02\/happy-groundhog-day-with-a-hint-of-sci-fi.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Groundhog Day (with a hint of sci-fi)"},"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>Indianapolis is covered in ice and it is snowing. Who can save us, or at least give us hope for the near future? 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