{"id":3572,"date":"2011-08-09T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/slacktivist\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2011-08-09T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:44:42","slug":"a-bit-of-housekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2011\/08\/09\/a-bit-of-housekeeping\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of housekeeping"},"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>You may have noticed I\u2019ve started indexing the Left Behind posts in their new home here at Patheos. That should make it easier for anyone wanting to start at the beginning and read through them in order. (It should also make it easier to adapt those posts into some sort of e-book or some such, which may be in the works.)<\/p>\n<p>I should be finishing that index this week in convenient 50-post chunks, each of which will be linked in the blogroll sidebar to the right for easy access.<\/p>\n<p>You may also have noticed that I haven\u2019t posted anything on <em>Tribulation Force<\/em> in a couple of weeks. While compiling the index, I was reminded that often a series of shorter, sharper posts can communicate better than the swollen, 2,000+-word essays my recent TF posts have ballooned into. Some of those have been a bit much for me, and it\u2019s likely I\u2019m not the only on thinking that.<\/p>\n<p>So starting next week, I\u2019ll be resuming our trek through the final, herky-jerky chapters of <em>Tribulation Force,<\/em> aiming to make those posts crisper, a bit shorter, and I hope more frequent.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the category of Things I Ought to Have Done Here Sooner: I think I now have most of the Slacktiverse bloggers linked here in the blogroll. If I\u2019m missing yours, please let me know at slacktivist-at-hotmail-dot-com.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed I\u2019ve started indexing the Left Behind posts in their new home here at Patheos. That should make it easier for anyone wanting to start at the beginning and read through them in order. 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