{"id":6079,"date":"2012-02-03T16:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T21:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2012-02-03T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T21:01:04","slug":"though-i-speak-with-tongues-of-penguins-and-polar-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/02\/though-i-speak-with-tongues-of-penguins-and-polar-bears.html","title":{"rendered":"Though I Speak With Tongues of Penguins and Polar Bears&#8230;"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allanbevere.com\/2012\/02\/caption-contest-20122-and-winner-is.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+allanbevere%2FROss+%28Allan+R.+Bevere%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Allan Bevere chose my caption as the winner of his latest caption contest. Here\u2019s the photo with my caption<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JEB-dgrA3Ag\/TyvYtPGYTMI\/AAAAAAAAE8k\/eYLkYclfTT8\/s400\/Penguins+polar+bear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"222\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cIf I speak in the tongues of penguins and of polar bears, but have not love,\u00a0I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allan Bevere chose my caption as the winner of his latest caption contest. 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