{"id":5337,"date":"2006-01-19T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T19:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/down-on-the-corner-1.html"},"modified":"2006-01-19T19:42:44","modified_gmt":"2006-01-19T19:42:44","slug":"down-on-the-corner-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/01\/down-on-the-corner-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Down on the corner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing like stopping at your corner convenience store to get some gas, and seeing…your bishop!<\/p>\n

Dang, if I’d been two minutes earlier, I could exchanged witticisms in the Burger Dairy with the Bishop. But that’s okay – Katie popped out to meet her friends, who were walking up to the store as well on  their way to watch a basketball game at school, and they all stood and spoke to him for a minute before he drove off. Slowly. <\/p>\n

And yeah, I flat out asked the clerk what he’d bought. "A paper and a Coke." Ah, call Dan Brown! "But last time," he said, "He bought lottery tickets."  Well, Powerball is<\/em> at 101 million. <\/p>\n

(It’s actually not surprising – the bishop lives about ten streets away from us, in a normal ranch house in a normal neighborhood…) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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