{"id":3985,"date":"2007-12-26T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/system-failure\/"},"modified":"2007-12-26T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T12:47:00","slug":"system-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/system-failure.html","title":{"rendered":"SYSTEM FAILURE"},"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>I would hope that most readers will read the title of this entry and think first of the closing segment of the movie <em>The Matrix<\/em>. Alas, my use of the phrase here is far more mundane. Windows Vista finally crashed on me utterly and completely. 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