{"id":34515,"date":"2016-05-03T10:17:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=34515"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:17:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:17:22","slug":"what-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/05\/what-is-this.html","title":{"rendered":"What Is This?"},"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>My\u00a0friend Eldad Keynan shared these photos of a carving in the wall of a building\u00a0in the Golan Heights. 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