{"id":88,"date":"2011-08-06T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/08\/why-i-still-love-lucy\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:01:56","slug":"why-i-still-love-lucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/08\/why-i-still-love-lucy.html","title":{"rendered":"Why I Still Love Lucy"},"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\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucille_Ball\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lucille Ball<\/a>, an icon of my childhood was born on this day in 1911. 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