{"id":50640,"date":"2018-08-30T05:31:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T09:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=50640"},"modified":"2018-08-29T20:33:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T00:33:48","slug":"excavating-armageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2018\/08\/excavating-armageddon.html","title":{"rendered":"Excavating Armageddon"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50643\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2018\/08\/Excavating-Armageddon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\"><\/p>\n<p>Look who\u2019s going to be coming to Butler University! 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