{"id":1676,"date":"2013-08-18T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2013\/08\/get-behind-me-s-s-s-tan-you-big-white-smoking-dog.html"},"modified":"2013-08-18T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T13:48:00","slug":"get-behind-me-s-s-s-tan-you-big-white-smoking-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2013\/08\/get-behind-me-s-s-s-tan-you-big-white-smoking-dog.html","title":{"rendered":"Get Behind Me S-s-s-tan (You Big White Smoking Dog)!"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/-UGuGSlYx-3w\/Ug_24D4SOLI\/AAAAAAAAH5g\/kIPLdtx_kiw\/s1600\/the_bouncer_dog_postcards-r0763bdfb257f40a0ac083f42e101b14e_vgbaq_8byvr_512.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/-UGuGSlYx-3w\/Ug_24D4SOLI\/AAAAAAAAH5g\/kIPLdtx_kiw\/s640\/the_bouncer_dog_postcards-r0763bdfb257f40a0ac083f42e101b14e_vgbaq_8byvr_512.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt; 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I mean, ask any priest:<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Saturday evenings &amp; Sunday mornings are hard \u2026 temptations abound!<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A sermon is never complete (no matter the preparation or lack thereof) until preached!<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><br><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-family: \"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";font-size: large;line-height: 115%'>Anyway, I was wrestling with a message when, up ahead \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<i><span style=\"font-size: large\"> The <b>Orthodixie Podcast<\/b> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientfaith.com\/podcasts\/orthodixie\/get_behind_me_s_s_s_tan_you_big_white_smoking_dog\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ancient Faith Radio<\/a>!<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"><i>Image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/the_bouncer_dog_postcards-239635161595004385\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2009, when my Father Confessor passed away, we Huneycutts inherited his dog \u2013 a black standard poodle named Wotan.\u00a0 Which means, as every dog owner knows, we now save lots of plastic grocery bags and take at least two walks a day around the block in our neighborhood. 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