{"id":517,"date":"2010-12-24T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/merry-sithmas\/"},"modified":"2010-12-24T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T19:15:00","slug":"merry-sithmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/merry-sithmas.html","title":{"rendered":"Merry Sithmas"},"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 couldn\u2019t find an online version of a card I received that I wanted to share (it has Darth Vader insisting that <i>he<\/i> gets to put the Death Star on top of the Christmas tree) so hopefully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/awesomer\/merry-sithmas\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this<\/a> will do as a substitute:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s-ak.buzzfed.com\/static\/imagebuzz\/terminal01\/2009\/12\/2\/13\/merry-sithmas-19789-1259778314-8.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/s-ak.buzzfed.com\/static\/imagebuzz\/terminal01\/2009\/12\/2\/13\/merry-sithmas-19789-1259778314-8.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4960595725061684045?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t find an online version of a card I received that I wanted to share (it has Darth Vader insisting that he gets to put the Death Star on top of the Christmas tree) so hopefully this will do as a substitute:<\/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-517","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>Merry Sithmas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I couldn&#039;t find an online version of a card I received that I wanted to share (it has Darth Vader insisting that he gets to put the Death Star on top of\" \/>\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\/2010\/12\/merry-sithmas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merry Sithmas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I couldn&#039;t find an online version of a card I received that I wanted to share (it has Darth Vader insisting that he gets to put the Death Star on top of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/merry-sithmas.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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