{"id":5953,"date":"2019-10-27T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2019-10-27T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T15:00:23","slug":"5953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2019\/10\/27\/5953\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakes!!!  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