{"id":4036,"date":"2008-03-29T00:20:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T05:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2008\/03\/29\/on-google-ads\/"},"modified":"2008-03-29T00:20:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T05:20:33","slug":"on-google-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/03\/29\/on-google-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"On Google Ads"},"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>Kris and I both think blogs that are cluttered with ads are unattractive. So, we\u2019ve done our dead-level best to avoid putting up ads. 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