{"id":8293,"date":"2012-07-07T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T15:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/07\/the-imperial-left.html"},"modified":"2012-07-07T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T15:08:02","slug":"the-imperial-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/07\/the-imperial-left.html","title":{"rendered":"The Imperial Left"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/07\/wpid-Photo-Jul-7-2012-1105-AM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/07\/wpid-Photo-Jul-7-2012-1105-AM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HT Lori Baron on Facebook<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png\" alt=\"Posted with Blogsy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;margin-right: 5px\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\">Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 HT Lori Baron on Facebook \u00a0 Posted with Blogsy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,75,91],"tags":[3048,3686,3719,4871,5054,8312,9305,11822,11946],"class_list":["post-8293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-empire","tag-funny","tag-galaxy","tag-humor","tag-imperial","tag-occupy","tag-politics","tag-star-wars","tag-stormtroopers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Imperial Left<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp;HT Lori Baron on Facebook&nbsp;Posted with Blogsy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/07\/the-imperial-left.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Imperial Left\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp;HT Lori Baron on Facebook&nbsp;Posted with Blogsy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/07\/the-imperial-left.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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