{"id":2852,"date":"2010-09-09T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/an-indianapolis-american-baptist-perspective-on-mosque-building-and-quran-burning\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:24:00","slug":"an-indianapolis-american-baptist-perspective-on-mosque-building-and-quran-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/an-indianapolis-american-baptist-perspective-on-mosque-building-and-quran-burning.html","title":{"rendered":"An Indianapolis American Baptist Perspective on Mosque-Building and Qur&#8217;an-Burning"},"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>Rev. 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