{"id":69785,"date":"2023-10-27T05:55:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T09:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=69785"},"modified":"2023-10-27T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T11:52:08","slug":"discussion-our-dangerous-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2023\/10\/discussion-our-dangerous-times\/","title":{"rendered":"DISCUSSION:  Our Dangerous Times"},"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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/305\/2022\/03\/cranach1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59751\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/305\/2022\/03\/cranach1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A full-scale ground war drags on in Europe.\u00a0 War breaks out in the Middle East, with Iran threatening to open a second front.\u00a0 China builds up its military, threatening Taiwan and other American allies.<\/p>\n<p>It is being said that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/10\/13\/jamie-dimon-warns-its-most-dangerous-time-in-decades\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">we are living in the most dangerous time in decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree?\u00a0 Do you think the U.S.A., as things currently stand, is equipped to deal with these threats?<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is being said that we are living in the most dangerous time in decades.\u00a0\u00a0Do you think the U.S.A., as things currently stand, is equipped to deal with these dangers?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":59751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[8502,13994,13931,11720],"class_list":["post-69785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-2","tag-americas-problems","tag-chinas-military-initiatives","tag-israels-war-with-hamas","tag-russias-invasion-of-ukraine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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