{"id":3719,"date":"2007-01-01T22:42:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T22:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/buckle-up.html"},"modified":"2007-01-01T22:42:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T22:42:15","slug":"buckle-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/buckle-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Buckle Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;bookblogging ahead. I have a short list of books I really, really need to blog on, so barring any unforeseen events, I&#8217;ll concentrate on that for the next day or so. Get that out of the way, clean out the email box and post the buckets o&#8217;links that people have so kindly passed my way and we hope are still timely, and then&#8230;it will be 1\/3 and school&#8217;s back in session!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\/\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;bookblogging ahead. 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