{"id":13972,"date":"2013-04-11T08:28:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=13972"},"modified":"2013-04-11T08:28:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T12:28:52","slug":"wild-asses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/04\/wild-asses.html","title":{"rendered":"Wild Asses"},"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>When we recently discussed the Book of Job in my class on the Bible, I couldn\u2019t help but wonder what <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.cc\/job\/39-5.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Job 39:5<\/a> sounded like to my students. 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