{"id":10668,"date":"2015-09-16T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=10668"},"modified":"2015-09-15T21:55:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T01:55:27","slug":"mr-king-the-king-shows-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2015\/09\/mr-king-the-king-shows-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Mr King, the King Shows Up"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2015\/09\/B.-B.-King.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2015\/09\/B.-B.-King-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"B. 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