{"id":973,"date":"2014-05-31T18:01:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/?p=973"},"modified":"2015-08-11T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T22:52:51","slug":"mandatory-reading-frank-weathers-on-forced-sterilizations-in-the-us-not-the-long-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/2014\/05\/mandatory-reading-frank-weathers-on-forced-sterilizations-in-the-us-not-the-long-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Reading: Frank Weathers on Forced Sterilizations in the US.  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