{"id":924,"date":"2014-12-05T16:45:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T22:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/biblenewsradio\/?p=924"},"modified":"2015-04-15T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:23:54","slug":"free-for-all-friday-is-christmas-really-pagan-should-christians-celebrate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/biblenewsradio\/free-for-all-friday-is-christmas-really-pagan-should-christians-celebrate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Free for All Friday: Is Christmas Really Pagan &amp; Should Christians Celebrate It"},"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>Hot topics today on Free for All Friday!  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