{"id":30053,"date":"2015-05-01T11:32:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T15:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=30053"},"modified":"2015-05-01T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T15:32:47","slug":"stop-praying-for-peace-in-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/05\/stop-praying-for-peace-in-baltimore.html","title":{"rendered":"Stop Praying for Peace in Baltimore"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-30054\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/05\/Ben-Irwin-Stop-Praying-For-Peace-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Ben Irwin Stop Praying For Peace\" width=\"463\" height=\"261\"><\/p>\n<p>Ben Irwin shared a wonderful updating of a post he wrote about Ferguson, but which applies equally well to Baltimore, and from which the quote above is an excerpt. It is called <a href=\"http:\/\/benirwin.me\/2015\/05\/01\/stop-praying-for-peace-in-baltimore\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cStop praying for peace in Baltimore.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/benirwin.me\/2015\/05\/01\/stop-praying-for-peace-in-baltimore\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click through<\/a> to read more of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Irwin shared a wonderful updating of a post he wrote about Ferguson, but which applies equally well to Baltimore, and from which the quote above is an excerpt. 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