{"id":3805,"date":"2010-10-06T07:05:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T14:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2010-10-06T07:05:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T14:05:48","slug":"if-anyone-says-this-is-a-sign-from-god-im-going-back-to-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/2010\/10\/06\/if-anyone-says-this-is-a-sign-from-god-im-going-back-to-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"If anyone says this is a &#8220;sign&#8221; from God, I&#8217;m going back to bed."},"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>[wpvideo C3F1Gmdi]<\/p>\n<p>So, President Obama was mid-way through a speech at Fortune\u2019s Most Powerful Women event when his presidential seal fell off the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, so? It happens, right?<\/p>\n<p>Shoddy carpentry, not a sign from The Carpenter.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta love his sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p>Yawn. Must find more coffee\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[wpvideo C3F1Gmdi] So, President Obama was mid-way through a speech at Fortune\u2019s Most Powerful Women event when his presidential seal fell off the podium. Yeah, so? It happens, right? Shoddy carpentry, not a sign from The Carpenter. Gotta love his sense of humor. Yawn. 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