{"id":6123,"date":"2005-12-25T21:31:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T21:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/12\/forecast-light-blogging-ahead.html"},"modified":"2005-12-25T21:31:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-25T21:31:19","slug":"forecast-light-blogging-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/12\/forecast-light-blogging-ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"Forecast: Light Blogging Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Merry Christmas everyone, and to my laptop, which has chosen today to sort of die. Research has uncovered the problem, which is not uncommon for this model, but which will also require being sent in to Toshiba, which may take a week, or may take a month. I have MIchael&#8217;s laptop, but as usual, I take this as a message from on high to carefully ration my computer time&#8230;.what will suffer most will be comments&#8230;this week, at least, they will be closed on most posts. Except, yes, our Liturgical Report&#8230;coming right up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Merry Christmas everyone, and to my laptop, which has chosen today to sort of die. Research has uncovered the problem, which is not uncommon for this model, but which will also require being sent in to Toshiba, which may take a week, or may take a month. 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