{"id":2517,"date":"2014-04-21T09:33:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T08:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2014-04-21T09:33:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T08:33:52","slug":"what-a-gps-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2014\/04\/21\/what-a-gps-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"What??!?  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