{"id":376,"date":"2008-07-10T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/07\/chicago-weekend.html"},"modified":"2008-07-10T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T11:41:00","slug":"chicago-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/07\/chicago-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);\">Some of you are new here, <\/span>but if you&#8217;ve were reading this blog back in January, you probably remember that I won a contest put together by the good, creative folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changeffect.com\/\">ChangeEffect<\/a> in Chicago. (Thanks again to those of you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changeffect.com\/thought\/story-contest-winner\/\">who voted for my story<\/a>.) The victory prize was a weekend trip to Chicago to see the Cubs play.<\/p>\n<p>That weekend is this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I are pretty pumped about it. We&#8217;re staying in a swanky hotel, catching a couple of Cubs games (<a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cubs.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20080709&#038;content_id=3100945&#038;vkey=news_chc&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=chc\">hey there, Rich Harden<\/a>), meeting up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattandsally.blogspot.com\/\">some great friends<\/a>, and other than that we have absolutely no schedule. Which is always nice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll update you on it when we get back. Until then, have you seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wherethehellismatt.com\/?fbid=i3cCu\">famous dancing Matt&#8217;s<\/a> 2008 video? Dancing Matt always makes me happy. 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