{"id":32372,"date":"2014-02-03T06:19:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T14:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnshore\/?p=32372"},"modified":"2014-02-03T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T14:22:08","slug":"free-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnshore\/2014\/02\/free-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Free stuff!"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/393\/2014\/02\/Big-News2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32375 aligncenter\" title=\"Big-News2\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/393\/2014\/02\/Big-News2-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reviving my monthly newsletter (from which\u2014as you may know\u2014I\u2019ve taken a bit of a hiatus). <!--more-->In it I share personal stuff happening with me: ideas I\u2019m developing, goings on with The <a href=\"http:\/\/notalllikethat.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NALT Christians Project<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unfundamentalistchristians\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Unfundamentalist Christians<\/a>, upcoming appearances or shows, etc. I also do giveaways: books I authored, books from my personal library, t-shirts, CD\u2019s, DVD\u2019s \u2026 I once gave away a desktop iPhone\/iPod player. 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