{"id":225,"date":"2010-01-01T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/01\/taking-a-step-off-the-100-foot-pole-this-new-year\/"},"modified":"2010-01-01T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T07:49:00","slug":"taking-a-step-off-the-100-foot-pole-this-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2010\/01\/taking-a-step-off-the-100-foot-pole-this-new-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Step Off the 100-Foot Pole this New Year"},"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=\"The Best Motivation Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_tjYoKCBYag?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><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>May we all play full out in our practice and throughout our lives in 2010. 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