{"id":1004,"date":"2008-04-06T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2008-04-06T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T23:56:00","slug":"the-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"The Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the littlest things are big to Jeff Deck, who is traveling the country in search of mistakes<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

May angels bear him up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the littlest things are big to Jeff Deck, who is traveling the country in search of mistakes. 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