{"id":488,"date":"2009-06-04T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mormontherapist\/2009\/06\/why-we-and-our-children-are-here-on-earth\/"},"modified":"2009-06-04T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T18:36:00","slug":"why-we-and-our-children-are-here-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mormontherapist\/2009\/06\/why-we-and-our-children-are-here-on-earth.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;why we and our children are here on earth."},"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><span>That\u2019s a great <a href=\"http:\/\/mormontherapist.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/how-forthright-should-parents-be-about.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a>. Your reference to the \u201cfalling process\u201d is an important  reminder to parents of why we and our children are here on earth. <\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Thank you! \u00a0I so appreciate your positive feedback. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s a great post. Your reference to the \u201cfalling process\u201d is an important reminder to parents of why we and our children are here on earth. 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