{"id":1617,"date":"2006-12-02T07:49:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T07:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/12\/fox-and-festivus.html"},"modified":"2006-12-02T07:49:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T07:49:02","slug":"fox-and-festivus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/12\/fox-and-festivus.html","title":{"rendered":"Fox and Festivus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Kasich of &#8220;The Heartland&#8221; for national FoxNews has contacted our people to invite us to the Chicago studio tonight for an interview about <em>The Real Mary<\/em> and <em>The Nativity Story<\/em>. So, if you have time tonight between 8-9pm Central (they thought this segment would run from 8:30 or so on), give it a look. Knowing how news is, though, nothing is certain until it happens. It gives Kris and me a great opportunity to have a dinner down in the City and to see the Christmas lights of Chicago. 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