{"id":5682,"date":"2010-06-01T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T16:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2010-06-01T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T16:23:45","slug":"update-from-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2010\/06\/update-from-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from 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>Well, our trip to Oklahoma has taken a different turn.  We came here to celebrate my parents\u2019 60th wedding anniversary.  The day we got to Oklahoma, though, we learned that my wife\u2019s father\u2019s wife\u2013who had been in the hospital for a relatively minor operation\u2013caught an infection and just died!  (Shouldn\u2019t the hospital be liable for something like that?  The reason I addressed her like I did is that they married late in life, and she really didn\u2019t serve as my wife\u2019s mother or step-mother.  In fact, my wife introduced them!)  Anyway, we\u2019re going back and forth across the state, going from celebration to grief and back again.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, I\u2019ll be posting when I can.  Thanks for those of you \u201cjonesing\u201d for your Cranach fix.  The guest blogger idea for later is an intriguing one.   I\u2019ll be gone for a longer stretch in July, so I\u2019ll see what I can do.  (Stewart has run off and gotten married and will probably still be honeymooning, so I won\u2019t ask him to help set that up.  But I have some ideas.) <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, our trip to Oklahoma has taken a different turn. We came here to celebrate my parents\u2019 60th wedding anniversary. The day we got to Oklahoma, though, we learned that my wife\u2019s father\u2019s wife\u2013who had been in the hospital for a relatively minor operation\u2013caught an infection and just died! 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