{"id":500,"date":"2011-06-07T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T23:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=493"},"modified":"2011-06-07T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T23:35:10","slug":"dont-be-afraid-of-the-space-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/06\/dont-be-afraid-of-the-space-rays.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Be Afraid of the Space Rays"},"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:\/\/io9.com\/5809608\/indiana-road-sign-advises-drivers-not-to-fear-space-rays\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9 posted a photo of a sign that is apparently to be found here in Indianapolis<\/a>. I\u2019ve never seen it, but now that I know it is out there, I\u2019ll be looking for it. Here\u2019s the sign:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/8\/2011\/06\/imag0059.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"602\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost as good as the one <a href=\"http:\/\/question-assumptions.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/i-just-couldnt-resist.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charles Schmidt posted<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ntweblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/courtesy-of-c.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MarkGoodacresNTBlog+%28Mark+Goodacre%27s+NT+Blog%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Goodacre spread the word about<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IO9 posted a photo of a sign that is apparently to be found here in Indianapolis. I\u2019ve never seen it, but now that I know it is out there, I\u2019ll be looking for it. Here\u2019s the sign: It\u2019s almost as good as the one Charles Schmidt posted and Mark Goodacre spread the word about.<\/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":[4871,5125,5131,9806,9995,11268,11634,12189],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-humor","tag-indiana","tag-indianapolis","tag-q","tag-rays","tag-sign","tag-space","tag-synoptic-problem"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Don&#039;t Be Afraid of the Space Rays<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"IO9 posted a photo of a sign that is apparently to be found here in Indianapolis. 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