{"id":2703,"date":"2014-07-30T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T09:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2014-07-30T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T09:39:26","slug":"yippee-internet-for-the-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2014\/07\/30\/yippee-internet-for-the-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Yippee!  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