{"id":238,"date":"2004-08-02T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2004-08-02T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T16:30:00","slug":"238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The Village&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those merry pranksters at Landover Baptist Church are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landoverbaptist.org\/news0804\/thevillage.html\n<br \/>&#8220;>at it again<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Village&#8221; Those merry pranksters at Landover Baptist Church are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-238","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":625,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=625","url_meta":{"origin":238,"position":0},"title":"Bands that will be playing\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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