{"id":1896,"date":"2014-12-24T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T11:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/justandsinner\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2014-12-24T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T11:46:18","slug":"pride-is-a-fungus-that-grows-on-gratitude-and-eventually-replaces-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/justandsinner\/pride-is-a-fungus-that-grows-on-gratitude-and-eventually-replaces-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Pride is a fungus that grows on gratitude, and eventually replaces it.&quot;"},"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>Here\u2019s a link to my last Advent Midweek Sermon, on the second half of the Magnificat, the one in which God is praised not just for lifting up the lowly but also for tearing down the powerful. 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