{"id":6848,"date":"2006-07-08T22:58:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T22:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/almosthome.html"},"modified":"2006-07-08T22:58:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-08T22:58:56","slug":"almosthome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/almosthome.html","title":{"rendered":"Almost&#8230;home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Knoxville for the night, before heading off early tomorrow morning for the Fort, which I have not seen in two weeks. Everyone else is asleep &#8211; I&#8217;m up waiting for Christopher, who is, on his part, returning from a wedding he attended up in Ohio (in a brief phone conversation he reported that the &quot;highlight&quot; of the wedding was the skipping, scratching ukulele\/vocal recording of &quot;Over the Rainbow&quot; played during the lighting of the Unity Candle. Not a Catholic wedding, btw). Our paths will cross here for but a few hours before we head up north, stopping somewhere along I-75 for Mass tomorrow,&nbsp; and he finally and totally moves himself south to Atlanta on Monday for what I have every confidence will be the beginnings of a great career in video editing and production.<\/p>\n<p>We said a regretful farewell to &quot;our&quot; beach house this morning, after one last hour on the sands &#8211; necessary because Friday was a total wash &#8211; a drizzly, rainy day on Anastasia, but no real regrets &#8211; it was the only rainy day of our week there. There are various tales to tell, but they will have to wait until I&#8217;m back in Hoosier land&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in Knoxville for the night, before heading off early tomorrow morning for the Fort, which I have not seen in two weeks. 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