{"id":4909,"date":"2006-02-06T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T08:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/bringing-you-the-world.html"},"modified":"2006-02-06T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T08:49:24","slug":"bringing-you-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/bringing-you-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Bringing you the world&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Or not. <\/p>\n<p>Blogging has been quite light of late, partly because we are almost all in various stages of illness, but partly because, truly folks, I am getting just obssessed with this Rome business. It&#8217;s at the point at which I&#8217;m planning our second or third trip, never mind our first. It&#8217;s at the point at which I know the geography of Rome better than I know Fort Wayne. It&#8217;s silly.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens is that every time I reach saturation point, I come across some new little nugget that seems vital and that alerts me to the fact that there is <em>much, much<\/em> more to know. Like last night I discovered that it is generally verbotem to touch merchandise in stores, from produce to sweaters. Is that right? I know in the grocery stores, you do pick your own produce and tag it (wearing plastic gloves?), but at the markets<em>&#8230;hands off<\/em>! That&#8217;s good to know. Now I can add handcuffs to the list of equipment to take for Joseph.<\/p>\n<p>The next three weeks will be intense &#8211; I have major projects to finish before our trip. But that usually means more blogging, not less, since blogging is the best procrastinating tool there is, bar none.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carl-olson.com\/\">Carl Olson<\/a> for a really great review <em>of Here. Now<\/em>. in a recent issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/\">NCR(egister).<\/a> Just saw it this weekend.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Or not. Blogging has been quite light of late, partly because we are almost all in various stages of illness, but partly because, truly folks, I am getting just obssessed with this Rome business. It&#8217;s at the point at which I&#8217;m planning our second or third trip, never mind our first. 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