{"id":395,"date":"2011-09-07T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2011\/09\/fire-fire-fire\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T19:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T00:15:30","slug":"fire-fire-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2011\/09\/fire-fire-fire.html","title":{"rendered":"fire.fire.fire&#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>\u2026 You should have seen The Boy\u2019s face light up with joy when he found out he is going to be a Torch Acolyte. Then you should have seen his dejected scowl when he found out the \u201ctorches\u201d weren\u2019t Flame Throwers. 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