{"id":16883,"date":"2013-08-19T08:30:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=16883"},"modified":"2013-08-19T08:30:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:30:59","slug":"a-bible-thats-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/08\/a-bible-thats-falling-apart.html","title":{"rendered":"A Bible That&#8217;s Falling Apart"},"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 class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/08\/wpid-Photo-Aug-18-2013-1011-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/08\/wpid-Photo-Aug-18-2013-1011-PM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Charles Spurgeon's famous quote, updated for more recent Bible-reading technology. <\/p>\n<p>HT Christian Memes on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Spurgeon&#8217;s famous quote, updated for more recent Bible-reading technology. 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