{"id":508,"date":"2007-05-17T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2007\/05\/this-turkey-heads-for-turkey.html"},"modified":"2007-05-17T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T21:42:00","slug":"this-turkey-heads-for-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2007\/05\/this-turkey-heads-for-turkey.html","title":{"rendered":"This Turkey heads for Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi friends.  This is just a brief call to prayer.  I am heading to Haran and Nimrud in Turkey on Monday.  I&#8217;ll let you know if I find the ossuary of  Abraham \ud83d\ude42   But as you know there have been some bad things going down over there for Christians, so say a prayer for me if you will.  Back on May 29th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi friends. This is just a brief call to prayer. I am heading to Haran and Nimrud in Turkey on Monday. 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