{"id":5276,"date":"2011-12-23T17:17:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T22:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2011-12-23T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T22:17:55","slug":"who-are-you-and-how-many-of-you-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/12\/who-are-you-and-how-many-of-you-are-there.html","title":{"rendered":"Who are you, and how many of you are there?"},"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>Because the most regular readers are presumably those who subscribe to the RSS feed, and thus who may read the\u00a0<em>content <\/em>at Exploring Our Matrix far\u00a0more often than they visit the site, I have no way of knowing exactly how many people actually read this blog on a regular basis. 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