{"id":97697,"date":"2016-10-18T08:34:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=97697"},"modified":"2016-10-18T08:34:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:34:50","slug":"eye-of-the-tiber-the-book-will-soon-be-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/10\/eye-of-the-tiber-the-book-will-soon-be-here.html","title":{"rendered":"Eye of the Tiber: The BOOK will soon be here"},"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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/14720522_759080920897586_7793360818019704660_n.jpg?oh=2453f90e057080c1ea2769b7f18ba635&amp;oe=58A4EE75\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Check out the ringing endorsements!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne of the best doorstops I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d \u2013 <strong>Hilin Naoum<\/strong>, <em>S.C.\u2019s wife<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI laughed until I cried. After this book, Catholics are going to have to work even harder to make everyone think we\u2019re boring.\u201d \u2013 <strong>Jennifer Fulwiler<\/strong>, #4 Google search result for \u201csocially awkward person\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis book is terrible. Okay, it\u2019s awesome. Or is it? Buy it now to find out or get ten years of bad luck.\u201d \u2013 <strong>Matt Fradd<\/strong>, author of <em>Does God Exist? A Socratic Dialogue on the Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cG.K. Chesterton once observed, \u2018It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.\u2019 If that\u2019s true, then Catholicism must be a very good religion. For years, S.C.\u00a0has brought levity and light to somber corners of the Catholic blogosphere through his <em>Eye of the Tiber<\/em>\u00a0blog. Now, thanks to this delightful new book, that hilarity will spread even further. Read it, smile, laugh, and let it lighten your soul.\u201d \u2013 <strong>Brandon Vogt<\/strong>, author of <em>RETURN<\/em>\u00a0and founder of StrangeNotions.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe author used to work at Catholic Answers but left us for something more exciting. When that didn\u2019t pan out, he fell into depression. The result was <em>Eye of the Tiber<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 <strong>Karl Keating<\/strong>, founder of Catholic Answers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the ringing endorsements! \u201cOne of the best doorstops I\u2019ve ever had.\u201d \u2013 Hilin Naoum, S.C.\u2019s wife \u201cI laughed until I cried. 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