{"id":6940,"date":"2006-06-24T23:06:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T23:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/coming-to-you-from.html"},"modified":"2006-06-24T23:06:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T23:06:40","slug":"coming-to-you-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/coming-to-you-from.html","title":{"rendered":"Coming to you from&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knoxville!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we&#8217;re here, until late this next week, at which point we will head down to Florida. It&#8217;s also Christopher&#8217;s last couple of weeks here in K-town, as he finishes up his last 4 hours of classes and then completes his move to Atlanta. I did my part in the move by bringing up 8 huge binders of old sports cards he had collected during his pre-adolescence and teen years, that somehow had remained with me. It&#8217;s an exercise in perspective, you can tell, to flip through pages and pages of objects you &quot;had&quot; to have ten years ago and find that&#8230;you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>We all know that feeling, don&#8217;t we&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, a week or so of family time, pool time, a second pass at some swimming lessons for Joseph after the highly unsuccesful attempt of a year ago at the Y, a bit of a base tan before we head to FLA for a week at the beach, pure vacation that&#8217;s been a long time coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knoxville! Yes, we&#8217;re here, until late this next week, at which point we will head down to Florida. It&#8217;s also Christopher&#8217;s last couple of weeks here in K-town, as he finishes up his last 4 hours of classes and then completes his move to Atlanta. 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