{"id":669,"date":"2020-02-26T20:30:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2022-12-17T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T18:30:00","slug":"the-prophet-of-oak-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"The Prophet of Oak Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the turn of the 20th century lived a man in East Tennessee to whom God revealed visions of the future.  Most folks called him crazy\u2026until 1945.  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