{"id":4009,"date":"2007-12-16T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/quote-of-the-day-philip-k-dick\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T08:50:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-philip-k-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/quote-of-the-day-philip-k-dick.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Philip K. Dick)"},"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:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cReality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn\u2019t go away\u201d<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quote\/787.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Philip K. 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