{"id":39825,"date":"2017-01-05T17:30:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T21:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/nolongerquivering\/?p=39825"},"modified":"2017-01-05T11:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T15:22:48","slug":"nlq-question-week-not-allow-children-small-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nolongerquivering\/2017\/01\/nlq-question-week-not-allow-children-small-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"NLQ Question of the Week: Why Not Allow Children Small Freedoms?"},"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\/188\/2017\/01\/Questionoftheweek.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39826\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39826\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/188\/2017\/01\/Questionoftheweek-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Questionoftheweek\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a>This is a series we run every Thursday. 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