{"id":474,"date":"2013-08-18T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/keeping-zoroastrianism-alive-after-3000-years.html"},"modified":"2014-07-28T15:57:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T20:57:04","slug":"keeping-zoroastrianism-alive-after-3000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/keeping-zoroastrianism-alive-after-3000-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Zoroastrianism alive after 3,000 years"},"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><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DpnfDN-xsX4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Zoroastrianism is one of the oldest religions in the world but its numbers are shrinking. One cannot convert to Zoroastrianism. You have to be born into it, which explains why the numbers are dwindling to about 200,000. This clip above comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-23744554\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">from BBC New<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoroastrianism is one of the oldest religions in the world but its numbers are shrinking. One cannot convert to Zoroastrianism. You have to be born into it, which explains why the numbers are dwindling to about 200,000. 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