{"id":835,"date":"2007-03-13T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2007-03-13T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T18:32:00","slug":"gallimaufry-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry"},"content":{"rendered":"

• When driving east from Colorado, I often make a short pilgrimage to Carhenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

• BeliefNet has cut me off again. Restoring this blog to BlogHeaven<\/a> is a “top priority,” my contact there said. That was three days ago. Again, I am baffled; I have not changed my RSS or Atom feed settings or anything like that. Eventually, I will just stop caring.<\/p>\n

• “I guess we’re mainstream now–and thus ripe for parody,” said the person who emailed me this item from The Onion<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

• When driving east from Colorado, I often make a short pilgrimage to Carhenge. • BeliefNet has cut me off again. Restoring this blog to BlogHeaven is a “top priority,” my contact there said. That was three days ago. 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