{"id":3034,"date":"2008-08-02T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/08\/im-back-4.html"},"modified":"2008-08-02T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T14:27:00","slug":"im-back-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/08\/im-back-4.html","title":{"rendered":"I’m back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many of you may have heard, there was a Blogger\/Google glitch — a “brain fart,” someone called it — which shut down my little blog (and, it seems, hundreds of others) for a couple days. It now appears to be back. Whoo-hoo! (However, there appears to be something freaky going on with Internet Explorer; a couple people wrote in that they couldn’t reach me and a couple other sites using IE. Try Foxfire or Safari. When I just logged on via IE, I reached this site, but all the words were in CAPS. Weird.) <\/p>\n

Anyway…Here’s a little something to keep you afloat — which sort of describes how I felt when my blog was on the fritz. <\/p>\n

It also shows how courageously the male of the species copes with serious illness. Like, say, a head cold. (H\/T to The Dawn Patrol<\/a> and Dawn Eden.) <\/p>\n

Enjoy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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