{"id":94600,"date":"2015-10-10T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=94600"},"modified":"2015-10-10T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T17:31:18","slug":"steven-greydanus-on-the-avatar-the-last-airbender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/10\/steven-greydanus-on-the-avatar-the-last-airbender.html","title":{"rendered":"Steven Greydanus on the <i>Avatar: The Last Airbender<\/i>"},"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>\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/7MS0zIMBOD\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">and our longing to slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the face of God.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We talked about it on \u201cConnecting the Dots\u201d yesterday and Steve was his typically insightful self:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"audio_iframe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/d3x4u-595c3a\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026and our longing to slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the face of God. 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