{"id":5144,"date":"2011-12-17T21:05:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T02:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2011-12-17T21:05:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T02:05:48","slug":"envisaging-a-better-star-wars-christmas-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/12\/envisaging-a-better-star-wars-christmas-special.html","title":{"rendered":"Envisaging A Better Star Wars Christmas Special"},"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 rel=\"attachment wp-att-5145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/12\/envisaging-a-better-star-wars-christmas-special.html\/star-wars-christmas-special\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5145\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2011\/12\/Star-Wars-Christmas-Special.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lartist.myshopify.com\/products\/its-life-day-charlie-brown\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">By\u00a0Lar DeSouza<\/a>.\u00a0HT Steampunk Boba Fett on Facebook.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Lar DeSouza.\u00a0HT Steampunk Boba Fett on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,91],"tags":[1625,1746,1852,2039,4871,8870,11658,11822],"class_list":["post-5144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-cartoon","tag-charlie-brown","tag-christmas","tag-comic","tag-humor","tag-peanuts","tag-special","tag-star-wars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Envisaging A Better Star Wars Christmas Special<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By\u00a0Lar DeSouza.\u00a0HT Steampunk Boba Fett on Facebook.\" \/>\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\/2011\/12\/envisaging-a-better-star-wars-christmas-special.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Envisaging A Better Star Wars Christmas Special\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By\u00a0Lar DeSouza.\u00a0HT Steampunk Boba Fett on Facebook.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/12\/envisaging-a-better-star-wars-christmas-special.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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