{"id":785,"date":"2008-09-16T13:39:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T13:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/small-world-department.html"},"modified":"2008-09-16T13:39:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T13:39:42","slug":"small-world-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/small-world-department.html","title":{"rendered":"Small World Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rome office:<br \/>\nMy son is in Rome doing a 1-month TEFL certification program. The first day of class he sits down next to a young woman.\u00a0 Class begins, the students introduce themselves. The young woman sitting next to David is an alumna\u00a0of a small Midwestern liberal arts college. She is also a graduate of Homestead High School.<br \/>\nIn Fort Wayne, Indiana.<br \/>\nThe odds, the odds.<br \/>\n(David&#8217;s graduated from the IB program at South Side in Fort Wayne)<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s doing fine. He asked me today about the &#8220;wax effigy &#8221; of John XXIII in St. Peter&#8217;s.<br \/>\nUh&#8230;not a wax effigy.<br \/>\n&#8220;What? I thought maybe he was buried underneath it or something.&#8221;<br \/>\nNope. It&#8217;s him. In the flesh.<br \/>\nWelcome to Rome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome office: My son is in Rome doing a 1-month TEFL certification program. The first day of class he sits down next to a young woman.\u00a0 Class begins, the students introduce themselves. The young woman sitting next to David is an alumna\u00a0of a small Midwestern liberal arts college. 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