{"id":810,"date":"2010-11-01T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/prester-john-nestorians-and-medieval-life-without-snopes-com-reenacted-with-action-figures\/"},"modified":"2010-11-01T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T22:35:00","slug":"prester-john-nestorians-and-medieval-life-without-snopes-com-reenacted-with-action-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/prester-john-nestorians-and-medieval-life-without-snopes-com-reenacted-with-action-figures.html","title":{"rendered":"Prester John, Nestorians, and Medieval Life Without Snopes.com &#8211; Reenacted with Action Figures!"},"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:\/\/io9.com\/5678733\/medieval-mysticism-explained-with-lolcats-and-action-figures\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">This video<\/a> combines too much that is interesting into a single video for me to have any chance at successfully summarizing it. 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