{"id":349,"date":"2012-11-15T06:35:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lisahendey\/?p=349"},"modified":"2015-03-12T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:51:47","slug":"real-housewives-of-catholic-media-who-would-you-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lisahendey\/2012\/11\/real-housewives-of-catholic-media-who-would-you-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Housewives of Catholic Media &#8211; Who Would You Watch?"},"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\/300\/2012\/11\/Real-Housewives.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-350\" title=\"Real Housewives\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/300\/2012\/11\/Real-Housewives.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"334\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for enduring a few days of \u201cradio silence\u201d here on the blog folks. Hopefully it prepared you for the onslaught of sharing that\u2019s about to happen over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>I always have the best of intentions for blogging when I\u2019m on the road, so in some \u201calternate reality\u201d I imagined myself working twelve hour days sharing this week\u2019s USCCB meeting with you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisaHendey\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">live via Twitter<\/a> and then retiring to my hotel room to offer \u201creal\u201d posts in greater detail. That was the same reality where I would have managed to write the book foreword that was due two days ago, to have loving cell phone chats with my husband and sons from the road, and to keep up with my overburdened inbox.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Obviously, none of that happened.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The trip was amazing \u2014 my head is literally still spinning from the blessing of spending a few days in the company of Bishops from around the country and sharing it with my fellow Catholic Bloggers. I have some great content to share with you, but first I have to take care of a couple of things at home and finish that book project too.<\/p>\n<p>So in the mean time, I\u2019ll leave you to have a little fun with the image I\u2019ve shared here. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASonofBosco\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ashley Collins<\/a>\u2018 \u201cimaginary smash hit\u201d is actually like a vamp off of the real-life project being promoted by\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/netny.net\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NET<\/a>\u00a0channel in New York.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/netny.net\/minorrevisions\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Minor Revisions<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>takes a \u201creal world\u201d life at our friend and fellow blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jennifer Fulwiler of Conversion Diary<\/a>. From the trailer, which I\u2019ll share here, it looks like \u201cdon\u2019t miss\u201d programming \u2014 authentic, entertaining, and featuring things like\u00a0scorpions\u00a0walking across kitchen floors. I will be watching for sure!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tChmuaw6xzs?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><embed width=\"560\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tChmuaw6xzs?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>But while I\u2019m catching up on a bit of stuff today and organizing the content I want to share with you, I\u2019ll leave you to \u201cdaydream\u201d a bit in the comments. <strong>If you were going to cast a Catholic reality TV show, who would be your \u201cmust have\u201d participants.<\/strong> The sky\u2019s the limit, and I\u2019ll get us started with my \u201cpicks\u201d in the comments. 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