{"id":568,"date":"2010-12-20T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/tron-christmas-special\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T22:22:00","slug":"tron-christmas-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/tron-christmas-special.html","title":{"rendered":"Tron 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>Apparently there was a Tron Christmas special once upon a time \u2013 or at least a spoof commercial for one. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/5aaba22e7f\/the-1982-tron-holiday-special?playlist=featured_videos\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Funny or Die<\/a> unearthed it, and <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5715437\/lost-scenes-from-the-1982-tron-holiday-special-starring-dom-deluise\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9<\/a> shared it.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/player.ordienetworks.com\/flash\/fodplayer.swf<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;font-size:x-small;margin-top:0;width:480px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/5aaba22e7f\/the-1982-tron-holiday-special\" title=\"from Rip Taylor, Scott Gairdner, Ryan Perez, PerrySmith, Nick Mundy, FOD Team, dannyjelinek, BoTown Sound, and James Codeglia\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The 1982 Tron Holiday Special<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/rip_taylor\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rip Taylor<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2727721223766395200?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently there was a Tron Christmas special once upon a time \u2013 or at least a spoof commercial for one. 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