{"id":3204,"date":"2008-12-23T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/schools-out-til-summer\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T10:43:00","slug":"schools-out-til-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/schools-out-til-summer.html","title":{"rendered":"School&#8217;s Out &#8216;Til Summer!"},"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>Grades have been submitted. The semester is officially over. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When my colleagues return in the Spring to teach their classes, I will not be among them.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Instead, I\u2019ll be playing hooky and taking my band on tour.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Below are some prelimary tour photos:<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/SVEH0CdKt8I\/AAAAAAAAAYg\/Ywyv-pQYgcE\/s1600-h\/James+guitar+with+band+name.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/SVEH0CdKt8I\/AAAAAAAAAYg\/Ywyv-pQYgcE\/s400\/James+guitar+with+band+name.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/SVEIm69y12I\/AAAAAAAAAYw\/3C4OlsmfvqM\/s1600-h\/Black+Sabbatical+copy.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_BtqUSG7RCA0\/SVEIm69y12I\/AAAAAAAAAYw\/3C4OlsmfvqM\/s400\/Black+Sabbatical+copy.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Band lineups are always changing, and so I invite readers of this blog with an interest in defining the band\u2019s future makeup (and with at least a minimimal proficiency with Photoshop) to make modifications and send the \u201cimproved\u201d pictures to me. 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