{"id":3069,"date":"2014-07-06T20:36:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T20:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/merebreath\/2014\/07\/06\/its-not-about-us\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T20:36:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T20:36:12","slug":"its-not-about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/merebreath\/2014\/07\/06\/its-not-about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not About Us"},"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><div>\n<div class=\"_1x1\">\n<div class=\"userContentWrapper\">\n<div class=\"_wk\"><span class=\"userContent\">Parents, we need to be mindful of our motives today. 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