{"id":5100,"date":"2003-10-31T16:52:34","date_gmt":"2003-10-31T23:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2003-10-31T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2003-10-31T23:52:34","slug":"missed_opportun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/31\/missed_opportun.html","title":{"rendered":"Missed opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rather than candy, I could have been handing out seasonally-appropriate Chick Tracts for Halloween<\/a>. Darn.<\/p>\n

Of course, then I’d end up with a big stack of them left over<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rather than candy, I could have been handing out seasonally-appropriate Chick Tracts for Halloween. Darn. Of course, then I’d end up with a big stack of them left over….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4912,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/08\/the_elder_gods.html","url_meta":{"origin":5100,"position":0},"title":"The Elder Gods are coming and everyone is doomed!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Dec-03 7:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"So ... what if Jack Chick wrote tracts for other religions. 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