{"id":363,"date":"2010-08-19T09:15:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T08:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pender.org.uk\/?p=363"},"modified":"2010-09-19T22:44:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T21:44:42","slug":"big-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pender.org.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/big-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this brilliant video from <a href=\"http:\/\/cumnockbaptist.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cumnock Baptist Church<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Fjm3KWhrFdE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this brilliant video from Cumnock Baptist Church &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,36,38,48],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian","tag-father","tag-forgiveness","tag-god","tag-jesus","category-5","description-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfWaLo-5R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1865,"url":"https:\/\/pender.org.uk\/index.php\/2010\/11\/can-i-help-mr-cameron\/","url_meta":{"origin":363,"position":0},"title":"Can I help, Mr Cameron?","author":"Robert Pender","date":"28\/11\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I was interested to read that Prime Minister, Mr Cameron, is going to spend \u00c2\u00a32million on measuring the happiness of the British people. 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