{"id":4789,"date":"2016-07-01T07:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/preventingrace\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2016-07-01T07:46:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:46:49","slug":"notes-from-the-road-probably-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/preventingrace\/2016\/07\/01\/notes-from-the-road-probably-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Road: Probably Dead"},"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>I actually think I have died and have been consigned to some very particular purgatory in which I get in and out of the car, scrape bugs off the windshield, run children through the loo one by one by one by one, drag big piles of stuff into the same hotel room\u2013not sure how this room is following me around all this way. Some day I\u2019ll wake up and God will tell me I didn\u2019t make it, I failed and I\u2019m going to be doing this for another thousand years, which is, as you know, a biblical number.<\/p>\n<p>And now I will get back in the car. We\u2019re in something called Miles City. So that\u2019s nice. 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