{"id":7275,"date":"2004-05-17T23:47:38","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T23:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/05\/busy_barbara.html"},"modified":"2004-05-17T23:47:38","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T23:47:38","slug":"busy_barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/05\/busy_barbara.html","title":{"rendered":"Busy Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/churchofthemasses.blogspot.com\/\">Barb Nicolosi finds time to blog on her trip to Spain.<\/a> Great stuff. Amusing &#8211; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Valencia\u2026.Sidewalks and streets paved with pinkish brown marble. In some places weathered and cracked, but, damn, it\u2019s still marble. I watched some workman in the city center laying down shiny new marble sidewalks that looked like they should have been in the foyer of Donald Trump\u2019s nicest house. It got even weirder when I saw an elderly lady letting her stupid dog do his disgusting business on a marble sidewalk. Reason no. 4256386735457293423 to annhilate the canine species\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAnd sobering&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>..will blog more later about more serious stuff. Particularly, more on the whole Europe vs. America thing. In brief, I can say that they don\u2019t hate us really. But, as a group, I found that even Christian Europeans tend to be shruggingly anti-Semitic &#8212; or, at least, if WE said the kinds of things they say, it would be considered anti-Semitic in America. I trust I make myself obscure&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barb Nicolosi finds time to blog on her trip to Spain. Great stuff. Amusing &#8211; Valencia\u2026.Sidewalks and streets paved with pinkish brown marble. In some places weathered and cracked, but, damn, it\u2019s still marble. I watched some workman in the city center laying down shiny new marble sidewalks that looked like they should have been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Busy Barbara - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/05\/busy_barbara.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Busy Barbara - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Barb Nicolosi finds time to blog on her trip to Spain. 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