{"id":271,"date":"2010-10-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/fun-friday-do-aliens-the-et-kind-have-souls.html"},"modified":"2010-10-01T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T07:00:00","slug":"fun-friday-do-aliens-the-et-kind-have-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/10\/fun-friday-do-aliens-the-et-kind-have-souls.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun Friday: Do Aliens (The E.T. 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