{"id":157,"date":"2012-05-16T21:25:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T15:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligent-torvalds.74-208-171-134.plesk.page\/?p=157"},"modified":"2023-07-22T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T22:49:22","slug":"a-monotonous-cycle-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"A Monotonous Cycle, Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know how public Solomon was with his discontent, but I doubt he kept his secrets any better than other politicians.\u00a0 Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion<\/em>, he wrote in the end of Ecclesiastes.\u00a0 Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.\u00a0 For God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil<\/em>.1<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

The title of the movie “As Good as It Gets<\/a>” comes from a small scene that marks the turning point for the main character played by Jack Nicholson<\/a>.\u00a0 As he exits his psychiatrist\u2019s office and sees people waiting in the waiting room, people who presumably believe their own visit to the psychiatrist will improve their lives in some way, Nicholson\u2019s character blurts out, \u201cWhat if this is as good as it gets?\u201d\u00a0 The storyline in the movie follows Nicholson\u2019s character out the door, but I want to sit for a moment with those stunned patients in the waiting room.\u00a0 For they seem a lot like the rebellious Israelites of Solomon\u2019s day.<\/p>\n

Solomon was their beloved king.\u00a0 He had built their kingdom into something grander than they had ever seen.\u00a0 They served him lovingly with all their might.\u00a0 He was the object of their pride and joy, yet they heard rumors that all their faithful service was ultimately profitless\u2014like chasing the wind<\/em>.2<\/sup><\/a> \u00a0He possessed the wealth and power, the wisdom and ability to acquire or procure all the things the Israelites believed (and not only the Israelites believed) would bring them happiness, a better life.\u00a0 Their fathers, their grandfathers and great grandfathers had hoped that a king like this would save them from the monotonous cycle<\/em> of fearing God and keeping his commandments, and they had instilled this hope apparently in many of their offspring.\u00a0 So when Solomon found the only meaning of his life in the simple terms of Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man<\/em>, it is much more than a slap in their faces.\u00a0 This was no crank who breezed through their lives as quickly as one passes through a waiting room.\u00a0 Solomon represented their hope and their ambition to be free of this very obligation. \u00a0But Solomon turned on them, dashed their hopes and crushed their ambitions when he declared essentially, \u201cThis is as good as it gets!\u201d<\/p>\n

But were the Israelites really free to articulate such things in a theocratic state?\u00a0 Was it even possible to think them clearly and coherently?\u00a0 Or would they simply say, not even to Solomon but to his son, Your father made us work too hard<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Rehoboam took three days to consider the ultimatum his subjects made: Now if you lighten the demands\u2026and don\u2019t make us work as hard, we will serve you<\/em>.3<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 His father\u2019s advisers counseled Rehoboam to acquiesce to the people\u2019s demand.\u00a0 His own advisers counseled him to stand firm through this first challenge to his reign.\u00a0 The text seems to imply, and given the outcome the author may have believed, that the older advisers gave Rehoboam the better advice.\u00a0 But I wonder.\u00a0 Had Rehoboam heeded his father\u2019s advisers would the outcome really have been different?\u00a0 What about the next time his subjects came to the obviously weakened king with their next ultimatum and their new demands?<\/p>\n

Conspicuous by its absence is the ordinary, mundanely wise counsel that might have addressed both the people\u2019s concerns and the legitimacy and integrity of the king\u2019s reign.\u00a0 Let\u2019s not even mention the superlative, Solomonic style wisdom that might have proposed a hypothetical or a series of adroit questions to unmask and reveal the Israelite\u2019s disingenuousness to all\u2014even to themselves.\u00a0 My point is that I would be disingenuous to claim that God was intervening in Israel\u2019s history on the one hand and then blame Rehoboam for the result on the other.\u00a0 The king refused to listen to the people, because the Lord was instigating this turn of events<\/em>,4<\/sup><\/a> [See Addendum<\/a> below] the text states directly.<\/p>\n

Rehoboam mustered a large army, but the Lord sent a prophet to speak to him and all his people: \u00a0The Lord says this: \u201cDo not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. \u00a0Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen.\u201d<\/em>5<\/sup><\/a> \u00a0Rehoboam and his loyal subjects obeyed the Lord and went home.\u00a0 Jeroboam, king of the rebel kingdom, created his own religion to keep his subjects from returning to Jerusalem for worship.\u00a0 If I consider that Jeroboam\u2019s rebel people didn\u2019t mount any protest worth mentioning in the Bible it is not too hard to imagine that God could have comforted Solomon and Rehoboam with the same words He spoke to Samuel: It is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king<\/em>.6<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Addendum:<\/strong> September 6, 2021
\nI\u2019m not sure why I cut this quotation short.\u00a0 Now it seems pertinent to point out the pattern of the truth<\/a> of God\u2019s word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Masoretic Text<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Septuagint<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 Kings 12:15 (Tanakh\/KJV)<\/td>\n1 Kings 12:15 (NET)<\/td>\n3 Reigns 12:15 (NETS)<\/td>\n\n

3 Kings 12:15 (English Elpenor)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.<\/td>\nThe king refused to listen to the people, because the Lord was instigating this turn of events so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.<\/td>\nAnd the king did not listen to the people, because the change was from the Lord that his word which he spoke by the hand of Achia the Selonite concerning Ieroboam son of Nabat might stand.<\/td>\nAnd the king hearkened not to the people, because the change was from the Lord, that he might establish his word which he spoke by Achia the Selonite concerning Jeroboam the son of Nabat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Tables comparing Ecclesiastes 12:13<\/a>; 12:14<\/a>; 1 Kings 12:15<\/a> and 12:24<\/a> in the Tanakh, KJV and NET, and tables comparing the Greek of Ecclesiastes 12:13<\/a>; 12:14<\/a>; 1 Kings (3 Reigns, 3 Kings) 12:15<\/a> and 12:24<\/a> in the Septuagint (BLB and Elpenor) follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Ecclesiastes 12:13 (Tanakh)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (KJV)<\/a><\/td>\n\n

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.<\/td>\nLet us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.<\/td>\nHaving heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Ecclesiastes 12:13 (Septuagint BLB)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ecclesiastes 12:13 (Septuagint Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u03c4\u1f73\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2 \u03bb\u1f79\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c4\u1f78 \u03c0\u1fb6\u03bd \u1f00\u03ba\u03bf\u1f7b\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9<\/a> <\/strong>\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03b8\u03b5\u1f78\u03bd \u03c6\u03bf\u03b2\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u1f70\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u1f70\u03c2 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03c6\u1f7b\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c3\u03b5 \u1f45\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03bf \u03c0\u1fb6\u03c2 \u1f41 \u1f04\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2<\/td>\n\u03a4\u1f73\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2 \u03bb\u1f79\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5, \u03c4\u1f78 \u03c0\u1fb6\u03bd \u1f04\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03b5<\/a><\/strong>\u0387 \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u0398\u03b5\u1f78\u03bd \u03c6\u03bf\u03b2\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u1f70\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u1f70\u03c2 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03c6\u1f7b\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c3\u03b5, \u1f45\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03bf \u03c0\u1fb6\u03c2 \u1f41 \u1f04\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Ecclesiastes 12:13 (NETS)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ecclesiastes 12:13 (English Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

The end of the message; all is heard.\u00a0 Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is every person.<\/td>\nHear the end of the matter, the sum: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole man.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Ecclesiastes 12:14 (Tanakh)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Ecclesiastes 12:14 (KJV)<\/a><\/td>\n\n

Ecclesiastes 12:14 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.<\/td>\nFor God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.<\/td>\nFor God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Ecclesiastes 12:14 (Septuagint BLB)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ecclesiastes 12:14 (Septuagint Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u1f45\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c3\u1f7a\u03bd<\/a> \u03c0\u1fb6\u03bd<\/a><\/strong> \u03c4\u1f78 \u03c0\u03bf\u1f77\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1 \u1f41 \u03b8\u03b5\u1f78\u03c2 \u1f04\u03be\u03b5\u03b9 \u1f10\u03bd \u03ba\u03c1\u1f77\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9 \u1f10\u03bd \u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u1f76 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u1f73\u03bd\u1ff3 \u1f10\u1f70\u03bd \u1f00\u03b3\u03b1\u03b8\u1f78\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u1f70\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03bd\u03b7\u03c1\u1f79\u03bd<\/td>\n\u1f45\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c3\u1f7b\u03bc\u03c0\u03b1\u03bd<\/a> <\/strong>\u03c4\u1f78 \u03c0\u03bf\u1f77\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1 \u1f41 \u0398\u03b5\u1f78\u03c2 \u1f04\u03be\u03b5\u03b9 \u1f10\u03bd \u03ba\u03c1\u1f77\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9, \u1f10\u03bd \u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u1f76 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u1f73\u03bd\u1ff3, \u1f10\u1f70\u03bd \u1f00\u03b3\u03b1\u03b8\u1f78\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u1f70\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03bd\u03b7\u03c1\u1f79\u03bd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Ecclesiastes 12:14 (NETS)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ecclesiastes 12:14 (English Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

For God will bring every work in judgment, in everything overlooked, whether good or whether evil.<\/td>\nFor God will bring every work into judgment, with everything that has been overlooked, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>1 Kings 12:15 (Tanakh)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

1 Kings 12:15 (KJV)<\/a><\/td>\n\n

1 Kings 12:15 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.<\/td>\nWherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.<\/td>\nThe king refused to listen to the people, because the Lord was instigating this turn of events so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>1 Kings 12:15 (Septuagint BLB)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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3 Kings 12:15 (Septuagint Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bf\u1f50\u03ba \u1f24\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd \u1f41 \u03b2\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u1f7a\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03bb\u03b1\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f45\u03c4\u03b9 \u1f26\u03bd \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c6\u1f74 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u1f70 \u03ba\u03c5\u03c1\u1f77\u03bf\u03c5 \u1f45\u03c0\u03c9\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c4\u1f75\u03c3\u1fc3 \u03c4\u1f78 \u1fe5\u1fc6\u03bc\u03b1 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f43 \u1f10\u03bb\u1f71\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd \u1f10\u03bd \u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u1f76 \u0391\u03c7\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03a3\u03b7\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd\u1f77\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u1f76 \u0399\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03b2\u03bf\u03b1\u03bc \u03c5\u1f31\u03bf\u1fe6 \u039d\u03b1\u03b2\u03b1\u03c4<\/td>\n\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bf\u1f50\u03ba \u1f24\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd \u1f41 \u03b2\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u1f7a\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03bb\u03b1\u03bf\u1fe6, \u1f45\u03c4\u03b9 \u1f26\u03bd \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c6\u1f74 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u1f70 \u039a\u03c5\u03c1\u03af\u03bf\u03c5, \u1f45\u03c0\u03c9\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u1fc3 \u03c4\u1f78 \u1fe5\u1fc6\u03bc\u03b1 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6, \u1f43 \u1f10\u03bb\u03ac\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd \u1f10\u03bd \u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u1f76 \u1f08\u03c7\u03b9\u1f70 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03a3\u03b7\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd\u03af\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u1f76 \u1f39\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03b2\u03bf\u1f70\u03bc \u03c5\u1f31\u03bf\u1fe6 \u039d\u03b1\u03b2\u03ac\u03c4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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3 Reigns 12:15 (NETS)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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3 Kings 12:15 (English Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

And the king did not listen to the people, because the change was from the Lord that his word which he spoke by the hand of Achia the Selonite concerning Ieroboam son of Nabat might stand.<\/td>\nAnd the king hearkened not to the people, because the change was from the Lord, that he might establish his word which he spoke by Achia the Selonite concerning Jeroboam the son of Nabat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>1 Kings 12:24 (Tanakh)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

1 Kings 12:24 (KJV)<\/a><\/td>\n\n

1 Kings 12:24 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. \u00a0They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.<\/td>\nThus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. \u00a0They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.<\/td>\n\u2018This is what the Lord has said: \u201cDo not attack and make war with your brothers, the Israelites. \u00a0Each of you go home. \u00a0Indeed this thing has happened because of me.\u201d\u2019\u201d \u00a0So they obeyed the Lord\u2019s message. \u00a0They went home in keeping with the Lord\u2019s message.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>1 Kings 12:24 (Septuagint BLB)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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3 Kings 12:24 (Septuagint Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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3 Reigns 12:24 (NETS)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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3 Kings 12:24 (English Elpenor)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u201cThis is what the Lord says, \u2018You shall not go up or fight with your brothers, the sons of Israel; let each return to his own house, for this thing has come from me.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 And they heeded the word of the Lord and forebore to go, according to the word of the Lord.<\/td>\nThus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, neither shall ye fight with your brethren the sons of Israel: return each man to his own home; for this thing is from me; and they hearkened to the word of the Lord, and they ceased from going up, according to the word of the Lord.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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A Monotonous Cycle, Part 5<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Hannah’s Prayer, Part 4<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Romans, Part 67<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Isaiah 53:10-12, Part 10<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
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1<\/sup><\/a> Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2<\/sup><\/a> Ecclesiastes 2:11 (NET) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3<\/sup><\/a> 1 Kings 12:4 (NET) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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4<\/sup><\/a> 1 Kings 12:15 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5<\/sup><\/a> 1 Kings 12:24 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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6<\/sup><\/a> 1 Samuel 8:7b (NET) Table<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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