{"id":326,"date":"2007-12-05T20:44:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T20:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/12\/reality.html"},"modified":"2007-12-05T20:44:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T20:44:22","slug":"reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/12\/reality.html","title":{"rendered":"Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know those crafty-artsy-hipster-crunchy-parenting-homeschooling blogs where they’re\u00a0always posting photos of the kids’ projects, which are always very cool,\u00a0primitive yet winningly elegant in said simplicity, displayed\u00a0against the background of the\u00a0Mission furniture in their\u00a0Craftsmen bungalows or their farmhouse and if they’re Catholic, Pius and Benedicta got it all done in between their Latin and Greek lessons? And everything in the soft, blurry edges of the artsy-skewed photos bespeaks an oasis of calm and grace\u00a0in a crazy world?
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This isn’t one of those blogs.<\/font><\/h2>\n

(Yeah, they’re St. Nicholas. You mean you can’t tell?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know those crafty-artsy-hipster-crunchy-parenting-homeschooling blogs where they’re\u00a0always posting photos of the kids’ projects, which are always very cool,\u00a0primitive yet winningly elegant in said simplicity, displayed\u00a0against the background of the\u00a0Mission furniture in their\u00a0Craftsmen bungalows or their farmhouse and if they’re Catholic, Pius and Benedicta got it all done in between their Latin and Greek lessons? 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