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New Drone-Mounted Camera Can Tell What You&#8217;re Wearing From 17,500 Feet<\/li>\n<li>January 30 &#8211; Catholic, Protestant Churches Sign Historic Baptism Agreement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To view this entire newsletter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,614,5011,16],"tags":[6,7,53,2933,4866],"class_list":["post-10943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-global-spirituality","category-world-in-crisis","category-zionism","category-israel","tag-roger-oakland","tag-understand-the-times","tag-global-spirituality","tag-ecumenism","tag-zionism","wpcat-122-id","wpcat-614-id","wpcat-5011-id","wpcat-16-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>News in Review with Understand the Times - 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