{"id":100445,"date":"2017-06-14T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=100445"},"modified":"2017-06-09T20:35:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T03:35:30","slug":"age-state-dominated-crooks-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/06\/age-state-dominated-crooks-liars.html","title":{"rendered":"In an age when the state is dominated by crooks and liars.."},"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>\u2026using God and the unborn as shields for grinding the faces of the least of these and robbing us blind, the <a 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