{"id":14669,"date":"2009-12-07T17:19:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/?p=14669"},"modified":"2017-03-10T23:56:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T23:56:24","slug":"my-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2009\/12\/07\/my-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"My apologies"},"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><strong>Two apologies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Yes, the site is having difficulties today<\/strong>; it\u2019s a drag.  It\u2019s a real pain in the neck trying to work with, too.  I apologize for this; it\u2019s not my fault.  Hopefully tomorrow will be better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) I have taken down the \u201cWhen Good Children Go Bad\u201d post for reworking. <\/strong> I was trying to be funny, but it seems (according to a reader and one of my kids) that I had drifted into \u201cmean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t trying to be \u201cmean\u201d -it\u2019s not my way- I just wanted to give poor Myrna an escape, because she is so clearly in misery, in this joyless rendition here:<\/p>\n<p>One favor, please: Until the site is workable again, please refrain from posting \u201cnaked\u201d (or unembedded) url\u2019s in the comments section.  It has been taking me about 20 tries each to get them embedded with a site that is down more than its up, and my frustration level is climbing.  Thanks.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two apologies: 1) Yes, the site is having difficulties today; it\u2019s a drag. It\u2019s a real pain in the neck trying to work with, too. 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