{"id":2688,"date":"2009-07-07T07:43:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T11:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2009-07-07T07:43:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T11:43:44","slug":"home-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/07\/home-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Home again"},"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>Well, we\u2019re back from the road trip, in need of a vacation from our vacation.  A good part of that time, I couldn\u2019t get on the internet, which was kind of a refreshing vacation in itself.  Tomorrow we play the other role, the one we\u2019ve been inflicting on our relatives, as we host friends visiting us from Germany.  The good old summertime.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we had a good time, with an interesting conference on classical and Lutheran education at Concordia, Missouri.  I hadn\u2019t realized that St. Paul High School, like other synodical institutions including Concordia University Wisconsin where I used to teach, was a gymnasium (the six year classical school invented by Melanchthon).  In the 1970\u2019s, these were turned into four year colleges, except for St. Paul, which kept the high school part but dropped the two years of college.  (Germany still has the institution of the gymnasium, and they are excellent schools.  In fact, the German couple who will be visiting us tomorrow are teachers in one.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"premium-content\">\nIt was also good to see our families in Oklahoma.  On the Fourth of July, I slipped my 13-year-old nephew some cash, and he came back with a huge bag of fireworks.  We put on our own fireworks show, something I hadn\u2019t indulged in for decades.  Also, I played my brother, father, nephew, son, and son-in-law in an epic game of Risk, in which I conquered the world and particularly my brother.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we\u2019re back from the road trip, in need of a vacation from our vacation. A good part of that time, I couldn\u2019t get on the internet, which was kind of a refreshing vacation in itself. 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