{"id":4271,"date":"2005-08-08T19:23:50","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T19:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/how-could-i-forget-1.html"},"modified":"2005-08-08T19:23:50","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T19:23:50","slug":"how-could-i-forget-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/how-could-i-forget-1.html","title":{"rendered":"How could I forget.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was tapping out the book signing post last night, something was nagging at me. What had I forgotten?<\/p>\n<p>Ah yes&#8230;from the &quot;It&#8217;s a Small, Small, Small SMALL Catholic World&quot; Department:<\/p>\n<p>After getting various children settled, I came over to the book table to find Michael chatting with someone. The guy said, &quot;Hi, Amy&quot; and I thought, <em>Vaguely familiar, but&#8230;..<\/em> And then Michael said, &quot;Amy, you remember Pat Madrid..&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Weird, eh? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.envoymagazine.com\/EnvoyEncore\/Index.asp\">Pat Madrid<\/a> and (some of his sizeable) family and <em>sans<\/em> moustache (which is why I didn&#8217;t recognize him) in town from Ohio for a wedding, had gone to the noon Mass at the Basilica-Shrine, the same Mass we, in from Indiana, had attended. <\/p>\n<p>Where is <em>that<\/em> in the Bible, I wonder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was tapping out the book signing post last night, something was nagging at me. What had I forgotten? Ah yes&#8230;from the &quot;It&#8217;s a Small, Small, Small SMALL Catholic World&quot; Department: After getting various children settled, I came over to the book table to find Michael chatting with someone. 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