{"id":9528,"date":"2012-09-20T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=9528"},"modified":"2012-09-20T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:22:19","slug":"john-cleese-on-the-advantages-of-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/09\/john-cleese-on-the-advantages-of-extremism.html","title":{"rendered":"John Cleese on the Advantages of Extremism"},"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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Cleese vs Extremism\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HLNhPMQnWu4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>This video by John Cleese is right on target. HT <a href=\"http:\/\/carsontclark.com\/uncategorized\/12948\/miniblog128\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Carson T. Clark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video by John Cleese is right on target. HT Carson T. 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