{"id":704,"date":"2007-07-31T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T12:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/what_if_2.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:33","slug":"what_if_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/what_if_2.shtml","title":{"rendered":"What If?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if you came out of church one Sunday and found several young people sitting on top of your church sign, smoking and chatting on their cell phones?  What would you do?  What would you call them?<br \/>\nPatrick Mead calls them <a href=\"http:\/\/patrickmead.net\/?p=167\">family<\/a>.  Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you came out of church one Sunday and found several young people sitting on top of your church sign, smoking and chatting on their cell phones? 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