{"id":58,"date":"2011-12-02T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/02\/grace-lutheran-sued-by-estranged-members-leader-telegram-front-page\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:03:00","slug":"grace-lutheran-sued-by-estranged-members-leader-telegram-front-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/02\/grace-lutheran-sued-by-estranged-members-leader-telegram-front-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Lutheran sued by estranged members – Leader-Telegram: Front Page"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grace Lutheran sued by estranged members – Leader-Telegram: Front Page<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a perfect example for the title of my blog.  Just no matter  how you slice it, it will be a very messy deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grace Lutheran sued by estranged members – Leader-Telegram: Front Page This is a perfect example for the title of my blog.  Just no matter  how you slice it, it will be a very messy deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-58","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2m6h5-W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1901,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/08\/1901\/","url_meta":{"origin":58,"position":0},"title":"TV Appearance First Lutheran on Siouxland New KMEG14 Fox44","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"September 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a fantastic opportunity to appear on KMEG14-Fox44 to speak about our new contemporary service. 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