{"id":7101,"date":"2004-06-24T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T09:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/06\/on_deck.html"},"modified":"2004-06-24T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T09:32:03","slug":"on_deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/06\/on_deck.html","title":{"rendered":"On deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week or so of travels. <\/p>\n<p>We leave on Saturday, headed to Knoxville, where we will see my dad and my oldest son. Sunday evening, we&#8217;ll go on down to Atlanta to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbainternational2004.com\/\">Christian Booksellers&#8217; Association trade show<\/a>, which is always interesting. It is never really clear to me why OSV exhibits at this show, but I guess enough Catholic-friendly Christian bookstores attend to make it worth their while. I will be signing books at the OSV booth on Tuesday, which means I will probably be smiling weakly at hordes of uninterested evangelicals who&#8217;d much rather get their anti-DVC dose from an evangelical house. But we&#8217;ll give it the old Catholic try, nonetheless. It&#8217;s a good show for Michael to attend, because it stimulates a lot of good ideas. And..gee&#8230;.the Marlins are at the Braves Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday! Wow. That&#8217;s good to know.<\/p>\n<p>Then we&#8217;ll head down to Florida to see Michael&#8217;s parents for a day or so, making a stop, I hope, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andalusiafarm.org\/\">Andalusia<\/a>, which I have not seen since they&#8217;ve actually opened it to the public, making it no longer necessary for FlanneryHeads to sneak up the dirt road and hang longingly on the gate to catch a glimpse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week or so of travels. We leave on Saturday, headed to Knoxville, where we will see my dad and my oldest son. Sunday evening, we&#8217;ll go on down to Atlanta to the Christian Booksellers&#8217; Association trade show, which is always interesting. 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