{"id":519,"date":"2012-04-20T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/smith\/?p=519"},"modified":"2012-04-20T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T19:01:39","slug":"who-knew-introducing-timothy-and-sarah-mambo-and-ebenezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/smith\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew?  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