{"id":45867,"date":"2014-11-06T00:59:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T07:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=45867"},"modified":"2014-12-28T19:46:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T02:46:56","slug":"tin-cup-rattle-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/11\/tin-cup-rattle-day-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Semi-Annual Tin Cup Rattle, Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Honest.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t ask if we weren\u2019t extremely tight financially.\u00a0 And when I\u2019m not scribbling here, I\u2019ve been editing books, ghost-writing a couple more, and cranking out work for various mags, newspapers and periodicals.\u00a0 Please consider helping an emphatically lower middle class writer keep his smart alec kids in tennis shoes and burritos. (Funny story: Once, \u00a0I was on Skype with an editor (speakerphone), trying to make the case for why he should give poor lower middle class me a raise and pointing out that our large livestock galoot teenagers keep demanding food *every day*.\u00a0 So Pete helpfully shouts from the kitchen, \u201cDad!\u00a0 We\u2019re out of caviar again!\u201d \u00a0I\u2019ll miss that boy, though\u00a0selling him for medical experimentation was the soundest financial advice I ever got.) Seriously, we live on a financial knife edge.\u00a0 Please, if you value what you get here (and elsewhere) from my pen, help us us out. If you want to buy some of my books and\/or AV materials, you can get them here<\/a>.\u00a0 If you want me to come speak for you, as I have done for folks from England to Australia about everything from faith-related from soup to nuts, you can get the info on how to get me here<\/a>.\u00a0 And if you think of it, please pray for us Sheas, particularly that we can grow in faith, hope, and love and that our material needs will be covered so we can be about our Father\u2019s business. Thanks! You guys amaze me. I\u2019m grateful for you.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honest.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t ask if we weren\u2019t extremely tight financially.\u00a0 And when I\u2019m not scribbling here, I\u2019ve been editing books, ghost-writing a couple more, and cranking out work for various mags, newspapers and periodicals.\u00a0 Please consider helping an emphatically lower middle class writer keep his smart alec kids in tennis shoes and burritos. 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