{"id":5632,"date":"2006-09-21T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T22:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/closed-for-the-weekend.html"},"modified":"2006-09-21T22:02:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T22:02:26","slug":"closed-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/closed-for-the-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"Closed for the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed to California tomorrow morning and will be back on Sunday morning. (Yes, there&#8217;s a method to my madness. I did the red-eye back the last time I went to CA, and it worked fine. I fell asleep before we took off from LA and slept almost all the way to Chicago. Not surprising, since that would have been 3 am my time. Besides, if I <em>didn&#8217;t <\/em>leave at that time and left Sunday morning, I wouldn&#8217;t get back here until Sunday evening, which is just silly. )<\/p>\n<p>The point being&#8230;there might be posting here and there, including this evening and Friday evening (I&#8217;m taking 3 short books with me that I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll finish on the way out and will probably be moved to review tomorrow night after dinner) but comments are CLOSED! <\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;see ya Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed to California tomorrow morning and will be back on Sunday morning. (Yes, there&#8217;s a method to my madness. I did the red-eye back the last time I went to CA, and it worked fine. I fell asleep before we took off from LA and slept almost all the way to Chicago. 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