{"id":2429,"date":"2009-03-30T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/03\/lost-get-a-glimpse-of-jacob\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T11:24:00","slug":"lost-get-a-glimpse-of-jacob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/03\/lost-get-a-glimpse-of-jacob.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST: Get a Glimpse of Jacob"},"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>The <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5189983\/a-new-guest-star-deepens-some-of-losts-oldest-mysteries\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">latest LOST news<\/a> introduces the actor who will be playing Jacob, the mysterious figure behind the Others and one of the biggest unanswered questions. 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