{"id":4095,"date":"2007-11-19T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/11\/the-true-spirit-of-censoredmas\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T23:36:00","slug":"the-true-spirit-of-censoredmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/11\/the-true-spirit-of-censoredmas.html","title":{"rendered":"The True Spirit of [CENSORED]mas"},"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 just had to share <a href=\"http:\/\/qalmlea.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/imaginary-wars.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this gem from Qalmlea\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-322435797948368902?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had to share this gem from Qalmlea\u2019s blog.<\/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-4095","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>The True Spirit of [CENSORED]mas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I just had to share this gem from Qalmlea&#039;s blog.\" \/>\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\/2007\/11\/the-true-spirit-of-censoredmas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The True Spirit of [CENSORED]mas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I just had to share this gem from Qalmlea&#039;s blog.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/11\/the-true-spirit-of-censoredmas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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