{"id":1331,"date":"2011-01-02T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2011\/01\/quote-of-the-day.html"},"modified":"2011-01-02T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T15:42:14","slug":"quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2011\/01\/quote-of-the-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/Galen_detail-thumb-400x481-20647.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Galen_detail.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/Galen_detail-thumb-400x481-20647-thumb-400x481-20648.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"400\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"uiStreamMessage\"><span class=\"messageBody\">The reason I deferred in writing this is because of &#8220;the<br \/>\ndanger of wasting my time, since pretty much no one cares about truth<br \/>\nthese days; 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