{"id":164,"date":"2011-05-23T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/good-news-about-the-clash-of-civilizations\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:02:08","slug":"good-news-about-the-clash-of-civilizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/good-news-about-the-clash-of-civilizations.html","title":{"rendered":"Good News About the Clash of Civilizations"},"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 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">Just another example of why I love <a href=\"http:\/\/radioboston.wbur.org\/2011\/05\/23\/clash-civilations-music\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NPR<\/a>\u2026\n<p>For more, go to their website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clashofcivilizationsmusic.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clash of Civilizations<\/a>\u2026<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-133180876738612827?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just another example of why I love NPR\u2026 For more, go to their website, Clash of Civilizations\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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