{"id":1175,"date":"2010-08-21T14:25:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T14:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2010\/08\/the-road-less-travelled.html"},"modified":"2010-08-21T14:25:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T14:25:50","slug":"the-road-less-travelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/08\/the-road-less-travelled.html","title":{"rendered":"The Road Less Travelled"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one less traveled by…..”
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“Walking down a country road”<\/p>\n

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“The highway to Hell”
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The road to nowhere. <\/p>\n

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Shoreline drive.
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The roundabout way to get there. <\/p>\n

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Tunnel vision.
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“The long and winding road, that leads to your door.”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one less traveled by…..” “Walking down a country road” “The highway to Hell” The road to nowhere. Shoreline drive. The roundabout way to get there. Tunnel vision. “The long and winding road, that leads to your door.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Road Less Travelled - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/08\/the-road-less-travelled.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Road Less Travelled - The Bible and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one less traveled by…..” “Walking down a country road” “The highway to Hell” The road to nowhere. 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