{"id":1726,"date":"2010-07-29T20:19:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T02:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2010-07-29T20:30:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T02:30:22","slug":"holy-blueberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"Holy Blueberry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blueberry Festival is coming, and the Anglicans are ready.<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

The blueberry of our Lord Jesus Christ keep you in everlasting life.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s another stab at nature religion of a sort. At least they are acknowledging something outside The Book.<\/a><\/p>\n

(Photo from Wilmington, Vermont. The painted fiberglass bear is one of those community art projects\u2014something else all together.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blueberry of our Lord Jesus Christ keep you in everlasting life. It’s another stab at nature religion of a sort. At least they are acknowledging something outside The Book. (Photo from Wilmington, Vermont. The painted fiberglass bear is one of those community art projects\u2014something else all together.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-rQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1214,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1214","url_meta":{"origin":1726,"position":0},"title":"Did a ‘Pagan’ Bury the Staffordshire Hoard?","author":"Chas S. 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