{"id":20233,"date":"2015-05-11T09:03:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T15:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=20233"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:03:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T15:03:29","slug":"weve-had-a-fairly-uneventful-decade-and-a-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/05\/weve-had-a-fairly-uneventful-decade-and-a-half.html","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve had a fairly uneventful decade and a half."},"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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20235\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/05\/800px-Flag_of_the_Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant2.svg_.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20235\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/05\/800px-Flag_of_the_Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant2.svg_-300x225.png\" alt=\"ISIS flag\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The banner of the so-called \u201cIslamic State\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alas! \u00a0Don\u2019t count on it continuing:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/10\/politics\/isis-ron-johnson-us-threat\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/10\/politics\/isis-ron-johnson-us-threat\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are no grounds for complacency.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Alas! \u00a0Don\u2019t count on it continuing: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/10\/politics\/isis-ron-johnson-us-threat\/index.html \u00a0 There are no grounds for complacency. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We&#039;ve had a fairly uneventful decade and a half.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; Alas! 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