{"id":22357,"date":"2015-10-12T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=22357"},"modified":"2015-10-11T20:30:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T00:30:32","slug":"im-back-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2015\/10\/im-back-3\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m back!"},"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>We\u2019re back from our two-week sojourn in Denmark and Norway.\u00a0 We had a very good time, my presentations seem to have gone over well, and I learned a lot.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll be posting about the religious scene in Scandinavia and some of our adventures in the days ahead.\u00a0 Right now, I\u2019m too jet-lagged to do much writing (Copenhagen time is 7 hours ahead of our central standard time).<\/p>\n<p>But I do want to say this:\u00a0 Thanks for keeping up with this blog while I was gone!\u00a0 Usually when I\u2019m on a long trip and I can\u2019t post regularly, readership falls off, and it takes a number of weeks to build it up again.\u00a0 But this time my page view numbers were actually up, above what they usually are!\u00a0\u00a0 I put up some old items from my files, scheduling them to pop up during the two weeks, and sent you to various sites to find your own news to comment on.\u00a0 Despite what might have seemed like a dubious scheme to give you fresh content, you kept visiting and reading and commenting.\u00a0 I should be gone all the time!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re back from our two-week sojourn in Denmark and Norway.\u00a0 We had a very good time, my presentations seem to have gone over well, and I learned a lot.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll be posting about the religious scene in Scandinavia and some of our adventures in the days ahead.\u00a0 Right now, I\u2019m too jet-lagged to do much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[2411],"class_list":["post-22357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-cranach-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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