{"id":5600,"date":"2012-09-29T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2012-09-29T09:05:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T13:05:29","slug":"great-balls-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2012\/09\/great-balls-of-fire.html","title":{"rendered":"Great Balls of Fire"},"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\/2012\/09\/jerry-lee-lewis.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2012\/09\/jerry-lee-lewis-300x296.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"jerry lee lewis\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5601\"><\/a><br>\nIt\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Lee_Lewis\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jerry Lee Lewis<\/a>\u2018 birthday!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dvg9jxNHd68\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Jerry Lee Lewis\u2018 birthday!<\/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-5600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Great Balls of Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s Jerry Lee Lewis&#039; 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