{"id":5225,"date":"2011-12-21T22:55:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T03:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2011-12-21T22:55:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T03:55:41","slug":"christmassy-planetary-mnemonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/12\/christmassy-planetary-mnemonic.html","title":{"rendered":"Christmassy Planetary Mnemonic"},"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:\/\/xkcd.com\/992\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">XKCD has kindly provided a new mnemonic device for remembering the names and order of the eight planets in our solar system, and it has a Christmas theme to it. 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