{"id":235,"date":"2012-06-19T09:51:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T16:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jeremylott\/?p=235"},"modified":"2012-06-19T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T16:51:24","slug":"the-lord-liked-us-better-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jeremylott\/2012\/06\/the-lord-liked-us-better-then\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord Liked Us Better Then"},"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>At some point, I am going to write a great big essay on the genius, influence and tragedy of Steve Taylor, perhaps the best thing the Contemporary Christian Music genre ever (accidentally) gave us. 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