{"id":978,"date":"2010-07-21T14:13:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T14:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/heres-your-chance-to-say-goodbye.html"},"modified":"2010-07-21T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T14:13:48","slug":"heres-your-chance-to-say-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/heres-your-chance-to-say-goodbye.html","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s your chance to say goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By week&#8217;s end at the most, I&#8217;ll be saying goodbye to Beliefnet and moving this blog over to Big Questions Online. When I make the announcement, I&#8217;ll close all comments threads, because I won&#8217;t be able to monitor them anymore. I&#8217;ll be giving coordinates for the new blog and all that, but because when I turn out the lights on my Beliefnet career, there won&#8217;t be any combox commentary after that, I want to give all of you a chance to say goodbye to each other, if you won&#8217;t be following me to the new blog. I devoutly hope you do, of course, but not all of you will. So, if you want to say anything to each other &#8212; nice things! &#8212; this thread is the place to do it. It will be open until the end, which is very close (I&#8217;m not saying when because we&#8217;re still doing testing on the new site, and I&#8217;m not exactly sure of precisely when we&#8217;re going to go live &#8230; but it&#8217;s very soon.)<br \/>\nBe kind, folks. Some of us have been together on this blog for a long time &#8230; and we don&#8217;t even know each others&#8217; names! 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