{"id":16496,"date":"2013-08-08T12:16:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=16496"},"modified":"2013-08-08T12:16:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T16:16:44","slug":"baptist-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/08\/baptist-goddess.html","title":{"rendered":"Baptist Goddess?"},"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>There is a statue\/bust in my church, which seems to have been there since before anyone currently in the church can remember. 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