{"id":7463,"date":"2012-04-21T10:45:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2012-04-21T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T14:45:47","slug":"the-passion-of-the-christ-how-it-should-have-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/04\/the-passion-of-the-christ-how-it-should-have-ended.html","title":{"rendered":"The Passion of the Christ: How It Should Have Ended &#8211; or Maybe How It Shouldn&#8217;t Have Ended, but Did End Once Anyway?"},"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>The series \u201cHow It Should Have Ended\u201d is famous for coming up with amusing alternate endings for movies and TV shows. 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