{"id":31357,"date":"2016-03-01T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=31357"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T16:42:23","slug":"donald-trump-is-a-scam-evangelical-voters-should-back-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/03\/donald-trump-is-a-scam-evangelical-voters-should-back-away.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Donald Trump is a Scam. 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