{"id":101471,"date":"2017-11-10T00:37:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T07:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=101471"},"modified":"2017-11-06T21:55:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T04:55:53","slug":"brush-fame-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/11\/brush-fame-thread.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Brush with Fame Thread!"},"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>So here are my Encounters with Famous People.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I once shook hands with Jimmy Carter.<\/li>\n<li>And I have a letter from Jimmy Stewart that I gave to my wife as a Christmas present.<\/li>\n<li>And I stood in line next to Tom Skerritt.<\/li>\n<li>And I once drove down the freeway next to JP Patches\u2019 car (a big deal to fellow Seattleites).<\/li>\n<li>And Sherry Weddell is an old friend and godmum of our oldest son.<\/li>\n<li>And I had dinner with Bishop Robert Barron, a huge thrill for me.<\/li>\n<li>And I gave Peter Kreeft bunny ears:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t31.0-8\/1272510_195996643905863_11167906_o.jpg?oh=03811826d2ed25ddd688a63653705d5d&amp;oe=5AA307DC\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And I met John Michael Talbot once.<\/li>\n<li>And I know a bunch of Catholic writer types.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Drop your Famous Encounters in the comboxes below.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here are my Encounters with Famous People. 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