{"id":39436,"date":"2017-01-27T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=39436"},"modified":"2017-01-27T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T23:13:17","slug":"christians-say-hollywood-ignores-ignore-great-films-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/01\/christians-say-hollywood-ignores-ignore-great-films-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Christians say Hollywood ignores them.  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