{"id":1409,"date":"2006-10-13T02:30:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T02:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/10\/cure-for-fear-of-lightning.html"},"modified":"2006-10-13T02:30:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T02:30:40","slug":"cure-for-fear-of-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/10\/cure-for-fear-of-lightning.html","title":{"rendered":"Cure for Fear of Lightning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deafness. Here is our dog, Webster, asleep during a lightning and thunder storm. For years he was petrified of storms and would hide under the bed or descend into the basement where he could neither hear nor see the storms. Now, no problem. He&#8217;s deaf. 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