{"id":1250,"date":"2006-04-24T05:21:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T10:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2006\/04\/24\/you-might-be-a-squirreler-if-you\/"},"modified":"2006-04-24T05:21:47","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T10:21:47","slug":"you-might-be-a-squirreler-if-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2006\/04\/24\/you-might-be-a-squirreler-if-you\/","title":{"rendered":"You might be a squirreler if you&#8230;"},"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>Squirrelers, whether they are rednecks or not, are those of us who gather things and store them up for future use, even if they never use them. Are you are squirreler? 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