{"id":4519,"date":"2018-07-30T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2018-07-29T20:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T02:48:28","slug":"song-001-3-4-2-3-3-2-2-2-4-2-3-2-5-7-6-3-2-3-2-3-2-7-2-13-14-2-5-2-6-7-2-7-5-7-7-7-7-2-6-7-2-6-8-7-7-2-2-4-3-4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=4519","title":{"rendered":"Song 369 – Live in the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”]
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