{"id":5241,"date":"2006-01-23T00:33:14","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T00:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/new-open-book-feature.html"},"modified":"2006-01-23T00:33:14","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T00:33:14","slug":"new-open-book-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/new-open-book-feature.html","title":{"rendered":"NEW OPEN BOOK FEATURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People, my email situation is getting ridiculous again. On a typical day, I get about 75 emails related either to work or this blog, not counting those that are getting spit over to spam and that I miss. Most of the blog-related pieces are links, which I GREATLY appreciate. Second in number would be queries of one sort or another &#8211; questions about books to fit a certain need, people wondering about parishes in a certain area, questions about liturgical practice. Some of those are obvious contenders for reader blegs, others aren&#8217;t. And honestly, I just don&#8217;t have to the time any more to get to all of those great queries, or even to take the time to copy, paste and post as a reader bleg. <\/p>\n<p>So what I&#8217;m going to do is to start a new kind of thread. I guess I&#8217;ll call it &quot;Open Query&quot;. On this thread, you can post any question about any topic &#8211; book suggestions, good parishes in Duluth, etc. And pray that someone will see the question and answer it. I&#8217;ll keep them open for a week, close it, open a new one, and then post a link to the threads on the sidebar, so it will be sort of like a library. Or a Craig&#8217;s List of Catholic Blogdom.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, I&quot;m going to go through the archives and gather up all of the &quot;What Did You Hear&quot; threads and post them as a typelist, as well. Maybe someday, some in charge of Catholic Liturgy for the Whole World will discover them and read them and we hope not have a stroke. So let&#8217;s give this a try&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People, my email situation is getting ridiculous again. On a typical day, I get about 75 emails related either to work or this blog, not counting those that are getting spit over to spam and that I miss. Most of the blog-related pieces are links, which I GREATLY appreciate. 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