{"id":6805,"date":"2006-07-13T08:41:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T08:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/whazzup.html"},"modified":"2006-07-13T08:41:46","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T08:41:46","slug":"whazzup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/whazzup.html","title":{"rendered":"Whazzup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son David has been here all week, having returned the Peru trip with Katie, and driven them down from the Detroit airport on Monday. He&#8217;s going back to VA tomorrow morning, then moving into his own apartment down there on Sunday, then going to England in a couple of weeks. So&#8230;today, his last day will be filled with harvesting the house for household goods to give him (He keeps saying&#8230;<em>do you really want to give this to me?<\/em> And I keep telling him: <em>You don&#8217;t get it. The Mom gives the kid the old stuff, and the Mom gets new stuff. It&#8217;s a nice system.), <\/em>and then helping him make his housing arrangements for the first couple of weeks in England (after which he says he&#8217;s going to wander the British Isles for a couple of more weeks). Plus I have a writing job that was due, er&#8230;yesterday, and I need to finish it.<\/p>\n<p>Light blogging today.<\/p>\n<p>And if anyone has contact information for The Sisters of St. Vincent or the Sisters of Malta convents in London, send &#8217;em my way. Someone is supposed to be sending them to me, but I don&#8217;t know if she&#8217;ll be able to get to it before David leaves. Covering all bases here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son David has been here all week, having returned the Peru trip with Katie, and driven them down from the Detroit airport on Monday. He&#8217;s going back to VA tomorrow morning, then moving into his own apartment down there on Sunday, then going to England in a couple of weeks. 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