{"id":2624,"date":"2005-09-08T22:34:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T22:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/blog-alert.html"},"modified":"2005-09-08T22:34:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T22:34:35","slug":"blog-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/blog-alert.html","title":{"rendered":"Blog alert"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to spend the next hour or so blogging a whole bunch of stuff. I hope. Some of it will be serious, others not. Just a normal day around here. <\/p>\n

Michael’s out of town for the weekend – catching up with friends in Florida, catching a couple of athletic contests involving reptiles and wild cats. Of course there’s a hurricane offshore, just like there was last year when we all went to Florida to speak (amazing to think that was a year ago….). Next week he goes to South Carolina to do some speaking…who knows what Olivia will be doing on its twisty-curvy course by then. <\/p>\n

And me? Much transporting of Katie to events this weekend – football game, dance, volleyball game, piano lesson and oh…yes. She got a part. World, meet Mother Wolf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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