{"id":2965,"date":"2013-11-23T04:01:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T22:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligent-torvalds.74-208-171-134.plesk.page\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2020-06-29T01:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T19:49:49","slug":"the-righteousness-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/religiousmind.net\/?p=2965","title":{"rendered":"The Righteousness of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Pharisee named Simon invited Jesus to dinner.\u00a0 A woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee\u2019s house<\/i>, and she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil<\/i>.[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 The men reclined on cushions on the floor at a low table.\u00a0 As she stood <\/i>(\u03c3\u03c4\u1fb6\u03c3\u03b1, a form of \u1f35\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bc\u03b9)[2]<\/sup><\/a> behind<\/i> [Jesus] at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. \u00a0She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil<\/i>.[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

The translators have assumed that \u03c3\u03c4\u1fb6\u03c3\u03b1 is a form of \u1f35\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bc\u03b9 (to stand<\/i>).\u00a0 But it may have been a form \u03c3\u03c4\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9 (drop<\/i>, let fall<\/i><\/a>).[4]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 As she <\/i>[collapsed] behind<\/i> him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears.\u00a0 She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil<\/i>\u2026makes more dramatic and practical sense.<\/p>\n

This scene became the image of \u1f10\u03b3\u03ba\u03c1\u03ac\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1[5]<\/sup><\/a> for me (erroneously translated self-control<\/i>), the word at the end of the list Paul called the fruit of the Spirit<\/a><\/i>.[6]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 (It was translated temperance<\/i> before Carrie Nation<\/a>[7]<\/sup><\/a> picked up a hatchet.)\u00a0 I took it for granted that Jesus\u2019 thirty-something body worked perfectly well, that He had an erection, but that He loved<\/i> this woman rather than dragging her onto the cushions and fucking<\/i><\/a>[8]<\/sup><\/a> her. \u00a0I talked about this with a friend once.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t believe that Jesus had an erection because that would be a sin.<\/p>\n

I might have said that only the young and vigorous could mistake erectile dysfunction for holiness.\u00a0 As it turned out I didn\u2019t say much at all.\u00a0 The fourteenth chapter of Romans came to mind:\u00a0 I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean. \u00a0For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. \u00a0Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died<\/i>.[9]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 For better or worse the Scripture the Holy Spirit brings to my mind in the moment is what I take to be the leading of the Spirit.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think that a woman kissing my feet, wiping them with her hair and rubbing scented oil on them as she weeps would be a complicated issue for my penis to work out.\u00a0 At my age it is more prudent to be appreciative when it takes the initiative and demonstrates that kind of rough-and-ready-better-safe-than-sorry attitude.\u00a0 In fact, if I were inclined to criticize my penis for an erection it would be about the one every morning when I need to urinate.\u00a0 And though my assessment may be mistaken due to the urgency of the moment, it seems to be more persistent and stubborn, when it is pointed in a direction that no toilet will accommodate, than it ever was when my wife and I might have appreciated such persistence and stubbornness.<\/p>\n

As I revisit this scene, however, after over a year and a half of considering the differences between the mind of Christ and the ordinary religious mind, I see so much more here.\u00a0 It is not just that Jesus exhibited \u1f10\u03b3\u03ba\u03c1\u03ac\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 and love.\u00a0 He rejoiced over this woman.\u00a0 He was at peace in a social situation I would find incredibly awkward. \u00a0He was patient with Simon.\u00a0 His kindness, his goodness, his faithfulness and his gentleness are all apparent in a scene my religious mind rejects completely.\u00a0 So now rather than being about \u1f10\u03b3\u03ba\u03c1\u03ac\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 alone, this essay is about the righteousness of God.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to put myself in the scene playing Jesus.\u00a0 I\u2019ve played Simon often enough in the past.\u00a0 This will be a new experience for me, just to see how far I can follow Him into God\u2019s righteousness.\u00a0 Obviously, I have more cultural baggage to deal with than He did.\u00a0 But I\u2019m going to assume for the sake of argument that I grew up in his culture, a small boy kept back by the women, still sneaking a peek, longing for the day when I would come of an age that I, too, could hang out with the guys, reclining on cushions at the table, barefoot, in a dress.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll start calling the woman by name, rather than a woman of that town, who was a sinner<\/i>.\u00a0 John informed us that it was Mary<\/i> [the sister of Martha and Lazarus] who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair<\/i>.[10]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 And I\u2019ll assume that the Holy Spirit took control, filled me with \u1f10\u03b3\u03ba\u03c1\u03ac\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1 and I didn\u2019t act on the impulse of my penis to take Mary right then and there.\u00a0 So I didn\u2019t sin. \u00a0But not sinning is still a long way from God\u2019s righteousness.<\/p>\n

Truth be told, I\u2019m not all that likely to fuck<\/i><\/a> Mary in a room full of guys, no matter how bawdy the conversation or bold the invitation was.\u00a0 I\u2019m far more likely to pull my feet up under my dress, pretend that her ministrations tickled, and make some face-saving joke at her expense.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t seem like any kind of righteousness at all.\u00a0 Kicking Mary in the face and telling her to keep her wicked lips and hands off of me is a kind of \u201crighteousness\u201d I\u2019ve heard about, but it\u2019s not really me.\u00a0 Sitting up, taking her hands in mine, looking into her eyes and saying something like, \u201cPlease, whatever this is, this isn\u2019t the time or place for it,\u201d is about all the righteousness I could muster on my own in a room full of guys.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Jesus lay there and let Mary do what she would to his feet, long enough to make Simon very uncomfortable.\u00a0 Somehow Jesus knew that Mary needed to do this.\u00a0 I shouldn\u2019t pretend that I don\u2019t know how.\u00a0 It\u2019s axiomatic to me that Jesus didn\u2019t utilize his own godliness, but trusted the Holy Spirit that descended like a dove from heaven, and\u2026remained on him<\/i>.[11]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 Otherwise, Jesus\u2019 invitation and command, Follow me<\/i><\/a>,[12]<\/sup><\/a> is little more than a cruel joke.\u00a0 But even with the Holy Spirit I can still be dumb as a post when it comes to reading women I know, much less a stranger off the street.<\/p>\n

Still, I will say for the sake of argument that the Holy Spirit was able to communicate to me what kind of woman this is who is touching<\/i> [me], that she is a sinner<\/i>, and beyond that, that her tears, her kisses, her caresses and scented oil were her way of both confessing, and repenting of, that sin.\u00a0 Given all of that, I have taken my first step following Jesus into the righteousness of God.\u00a0 There is no way I could do this on my own, apart from the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 There are no laws, rules, precepts or guidelines that could possibly help me here.\u00a0 There are no twelve, five, seven, three, or four steps to a better me that would ever get me here.\u00a0 So? \u00a0Now what?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty tired right now, exhausted even, but Jesus turned his attention to Simon.\u00a0 If I were so deep into the Holy Spirit that I grasped this knowledge of Mary and shared this intimate moment with her, my consciousness, upon returning to Simon and a room full of guys, would be a shock to say the least.\u00a0 I would probably start making excuses, or try to explain the ineffable.\u00a0 Jesus, in the kindest and most ingenious way, began to grapple with the judgments of Simon\u2019s religious mind: \u201cIf this man were a prophet<\/i>,\u201d Simon said to himself, \u201che would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.\u201d<\/i>[13]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 How could I possibly follow Him here?<\/p>\n

I am skipping over the fact that Jesus knew what Simon was thinking.\u00a0 Maybe that was the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Maybe it was just growing up around religious people.\u00a0 We\u2019re not very subtle in our disapproval.\u00a0 Sometimes I think our disapproval is the main way we distinguish ourselves from others.\u00a0 And, unfortunately, it can become the main way we demonstrate \u201cour righteousness.\u201d\u00a0 So I think Jesus may have known what Simon was thinking with or without the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimon, I have something to say to you,\u201d<\/i> Jesus said.\u00a0 \u201cSay it, Teacher,\u201d<\/i> [14]<\/sup><\/a> Simon replied.\u00a0 It\u2019s a small thing, perhaps, but I know me.\u00a0 Even if the Holy Spirit gave me this wonderful story in the moment, I\u2019m not convinced I would have addressed it directly to Simon.\u00a0 I probably would have made it more general and aphoristic, even though I see now that it would fall flat and have less meaning for everyone present.<\/p>\n

A certain creditor had two debtors;<\/i> Jesus continued, one owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty. \u00a0When they could not pay, he canceled the debts of both. \u00a0Now which of them will love <\/i>(\u1f00\u03b3\u03b1\u03c0\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9, a form of \u1f00\u03b3\u03b1\u03c0\u03ac\u03c9)[15]<\/sup><\/a> him more?<\/i>[16]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 I doubt that Simon had any clue what the Spirit of God would reveal through Paul about how this greater love<\/i> (\u1f00\u03b3\u03ac\u03c0\u03b7)[17]<\/sup><\/a> is<\/i> the fulfillment<\/a> of the law<\/i>,[18]<\/sup><\/a> or the connection<\/a> between this greater love and the confession that Jesus is the Son of God through John (1 John 4:15, 16a NET):<\/p>\n

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God. \u00a0And we have come to know <\/i>and to believe the love (\u1f00\u03b3\u03ac\u03c0\u03b7\u03bd, another form of \u1f00\u03b3\u03ac\u03c0\u03b7)<\/em> that God has in us [Table<\/a>]<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not even sure whether Simon had a clue what Jesus would say next.\u00a0 I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled<\/i>, Simon offered.\u00a0 You have judged rightly<\/i>,[19]<\/sup><\/a> Jesus said.\u00a0 And then He turned his attention back to Mary who was apparently still doing her thing on his feet.\u00a0 I just throw up my hands at this point.\u00a0 How do I follow Him into this righteousness?\u00a0 There\u2019s just too much going on all at the same time.<\/p>\n

Do you see this woman?<\/i> Jesus said to Simon, as if he could pry his eyes off of her.\u00a0 I entered your house<\/i>, Jesus continued, speaking to Simon, but looking at Mary. \u00a0You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair<\/i>.[20]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 Brilliant!\u00a0 Absolutely brilliant!\u00a0 He didn\u2019t even try to justify Himself before this Pharisee. \u00a0He justified Mary instead.\u00a0 And I am weeping.<\/p>\n

Jesus continued to make his point three times clear.\u00a0 You gave me no kiss of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet. \u00a0You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil<\/i>.[21]<\/sup><\/a> \u00a0I\u2019m done, if there was ever any hope that I would make it this far following Jesus into the righteousness of God.\u00a0 But Jesus continued on.<\/p>\n

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much<\/i>\u2026\u00a0 Surely, now He has finished.\u00a0 No, not Jesus.\u00a0 \u2026but the one who is forgiven little loves little<\/i>,[22]<\/sup><\/a> He concluded, calling the entire theory of childrearing we religious people adhere to \u201creligiously\u201d into question.<\/p>\n

For who among us hasn\u2019t wished, hoped, prayed, taught, argued, lectured and punished our children in order that they would sin as little as is humanly possible, without ever even considering whether we were condemning them to being forgiven as little as is humanly possible, and knowing as little love as is humanly possible?\u00a0 And who among us, when our children have sinned, have gotten down on our knees and thanked God for his infinite wisdom, so much greater than our shortsightedness?<\/p>\n

Jesus wasn\u2019t finished yet.\u00a0 He said to Mary, Your sins are forgiven<\/i>,[23]<\/sup><\/a> and, Your faith has saved you; go in peace<\/i>.[24]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 I can only imagine what it was like for Mary to become conscious of her surroundings again, the staring eyes, the erections she never actually intended to inspire.\u00a0 Jesus gave her an exit, and as far as I can tell stayed to face the guys alone\u2014with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Whatever reproaches they may have intended for her then fell upon Him, if they dared.<\/p>\n

I would have great difficulty writing this scene as fiction.\u00a0 To act it extemporaneously is truly beyond my imagining.\u00a0 Follow me<\/i>, Jesus said.\u00a0 Those are some giant steps to follow in.\u00a0 But the story doesn\u2019t end here.<\/p>\n

Mary did it again, with a more sympathetic audience, perhaps, but no grievous sin for cover.\u00a0\u00a0At home with her brother Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead, her sister Martha, and Jesus\u2019 disciples Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. \u00a0She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)<\/i>[25]<\/sup><\/a> \u00a0I like that little detail the elder John recalled from his youth.<\/p>\n

No Pharisee was present who dared to question Jesus\u2019 righteousness.\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 disciples had seen it all before.\u00a0 On an earlier visit, while Mary sat at the Lord\u2019s feet and listened to what he said<\/i>,[26]<\/sup><\/a> Martha had struggled alone to get a meal on the table for Jesus and his disciples.\u00a0 She had complained to Jesus that her sister<\/i> [had] left<\/i> [her] to do all the work alone<\/i>.\u00a0 \u201cTell her to help me.\u201d<\/i>[27]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 But Jesus said, Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things, but one thing is needed.\u00a0 Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her<\/i>.[28]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 Martha wasn\u2019t about to criticize Jesus or her sister Mary.\u00a0 And I like to imagine that Lazarus could only sit and watch and love and admire his sister for having the presence and liberty to do what he should do.<\/p>\n

Only Judas Iscariot protested, because he was a thief<\/i>, according to John.\u00a0 As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it<\/i>.[29]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 Why wasn\u2019t this oil sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?<\/i>[30]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Leave her alone<\/i>, Jesus said to Judas.\u00a0 She has kept it for the day of my burial<\/i>.[31]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 I shouldn\u2019t discount Jesus\u2019 reason here.\u00a0 Mary had sat at his feet, actually listening to Him.\u00a0 She may have understood that He would die for her sins a few days later.\u00a0 For you will always have the poor with you<\/i>, Jesus said to Judas, but you will not always have me<\/i>,[32]<\/sup><\/a> He said to Mary.\u00a0 This double-dipping was so scandalous to the religious minds who wrote the gnostic gospels<\/a> that they forced Jesus into a shotgun wedding.\u00a0 And Dan Brown<\/a>[33]<\/sup><\/a> entertained us with suspicions that the Bible and the Church are hiding some terrible secret for their own nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any secret that had Jesus asked, Mary would have been his wife.\u00a0 In fact, I think if Jesus had asked, Mary would have been his whore, gladly, without doubts, no questions asked.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I love and admire about her.\u00a0 She came to Jesus without rules<\/a> or many delusions about her own righteousness.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t think it makes her a goddess.\u00a0 I also think that it\u2019s no secret that Jesus didn\u2019t ask Mary to be his wife or his whore, but his disciple.\u00a0 He did let her express her devotion in an intimate way that was special to them both, and others as well, a beautiful part of the righteousness of God.\u00a0 Who would want to keep this a secret?<\/p>\n

Only someone with a religious mind.<\/p>\n

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Back to Torture, Part 2<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Romans, Part 50<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Romans, Part 54<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Condemnation or Judgment? – Part 12<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Romans, Part 86<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Who Am I? Part 6<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Forgiven or Passed Over? Part 4<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to Atonement, Part 7<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
Back to A Door of Hope, Part 1<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n
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<\/a>[1]<\/sup> Luke 7:37 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[3]<\/sup> Luke 7:38 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[4]<\/sup> http:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/morph?l=%CF%83%CF%84%E1%BE%B6%CF%83%CE%B1&la=greek<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[6]<\/sup> Galatians 5:22, 23 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[7]<\/sup> http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carrie_Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[8]<\/sup> Antichrist, Part 1<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[9]<\/sup> Romans 14:14, 15 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[10]<\/sup> John 11:2 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[11]<\/sup> John 1:32 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[12]<\/sup> Mathew 4:19<\/a>; 8:22<\/a>; 9:9<\/a>; 10:38<\/a>; 16:24<\/a>; 19:21<\/a>; Mark 1:17<\/a>; 2:14<\/a>; 8:34<\/a>; 10:21<\/a>; Luke 5:27<\/a>; 9:23<\/a>, 59<\/a>; 14:27<\/a>; 18:22<\/a>; John 1:43<\/a>; 8:12<\/a>; 10:27<\/a>; 12:26<\/a>; 13:36<\/a>; 21:19<\/a>, 22 (NET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[13]<\/sup> Luke 7:39 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[14]<\/sup> Luke 7:40 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[16]<\/sup> Luke 7:41, 42 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[18]<\/sup> Romans 13:10 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[19]<\/sup> Luke 7:43 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[20]<\/sup> Luke 7:44 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[21]<\/sup> Luke 7:45, 46 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[22]<\/sup> Luke 7:47 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[23]<\/sup> Luke 7:48 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[24]<\/sup> Luke 7:50 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[25]<\/sup> John 12:3 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[26]<\/sup> Luke 10:39 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[27]<\/sup> Luke 10:40 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[28]<\/sup> Luke 10:41, 42 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[29]<\/sup> John 12:6 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[30]<\/sup> John 12:5 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[31]<\/sup> John 12:7 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[32]<\/sup> John 12:8 (NET)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>[33]<\/sup> http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Da_Vinci_Code<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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