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$\"\"$ I decided to go ahead with my plan to call this post \u201cChristmas in July\u201d even though Matt Kelley also posted something on his blog with the same title today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I spent today \u2013 actually, yesterday, since it is past midnight \u2013 at Holiday World<\/a> in Santa Claus, Indiana, with my son and some other people from our church.<\/p>\n

Most of the conversation during the slightly more than 3 hour car ride each way focused on important existential and philosophical questions \u2013 such as who the greatest rock drummer or rock guitarist were.<\/p>\n

Since my question about the greatest rock keyboardist did not get satisfactory responses, expect me to share some clips of some great keyboard playing in the near future\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"