{"id":5633,"date":"2006-09-22T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/coming-to-you-from-napa.html"},"modified":"2006-09-22T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T19:46:00","slug":"coming-to-you-from-napa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/coming-to-you-from-napa.html","title":{"rendered":"Coming to you from Napa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m here in Napa, getting ready to go to Mass, offered by..,Cardinal Mahony. <\/p>\n<p>Well, that will be a first for me. <\/p>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s dinner at a winery and back here at 1am my time or so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On the plane, I read the requisite two books, plus got some more of my Papal States book read &#8211; up to Gregory VII &#8211; finally! and pondered big old crater-type things &#8211; ancient lakebeds? &#8211; in Nevada. 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