{"id":447,"date":"2006-08-09T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/08\/oh-yeah-i-had-an-epiphany\/"},"modified":"2006-08-09T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T05:32:00","slug":"oh-yeah-i-had-an-epiphany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/08\/oh-yeah-i-had-an-epiphany\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh yeah, I had an epiphany&#8230;"},"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>\u2026the other day.  About Gen X and the Millenials.  I was up late watching a documentary on MSNBC about homeless teens in Portland, and I was marveling at their lack of interest in anything that might be a normal human life.<\/p>\n<p>And then it popped into my head:  they know it\u2019s all over and they are waiting for the call to battle.  They are just killing time waiting for something to die for.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that they don\u2019t understand modern society.  It\u2019s that they do.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026the other day. About Gen X and the Millenials. I was up late watching a documentary on MSNBC about homeless teens in Portland, and I was marveling at their lack of interest in anything that might be a normal human life. 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