{"id":2480,"date":"2013-02-15T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2014-12-26T11:12:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T16:12:57","slug":"family-of-14-pursues-freedom-and-pioneer-spirit-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2013\/02\/family-of-14-pursues-freedom-and-pioneer-spirit-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of 14 Pursues Freedom and Pioneer Spirit on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Bob Dotson, who does \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/id\/19333758\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">American Story<\/a>\u201d segments for NBC\u2019s Today Show, recently spent some time with Dan and Susie Kellogg, the homeschooling parents of 12 kids who got rid of their home and car payments in order to embrace an educational adventure that would also bring their family closer together. Very close, in fact, because they\u2019re traveling across the country in an RV.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s their story:<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"msnbc45416\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=50614480&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed name=\"msnbc45416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" flashvars=\"launch=50614480&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 420px;\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight: normal !important; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dotson, who does \u201cAmerican Story\u201d segments for NBC\u2019s Today Show, recently spent some time with Dan and Susie Kellogg, the homeschooling parents of 12 kids who got rid of their home and car payments in order to embrace an educational adventure that would also bring their family closer together. 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