{"id":13885,"date":"2014-05-31T23:55:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T03:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=13885"},"modified":"2015-01-10T21:37:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T02:37:51","slug":"let-me-tell-ya-a-little-story-about-novenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2014\/05\/let-me-tell-ya-a-little-story-about-novenas.html","title":{"rendered":"Let me tell ya a little story about novenas&#8230;"},"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>\u2026 They scare me to death. Maybe that\u2019s why I\u2019ve never finished one. Ever. It just seems like every time I start one <em>things<\/em> start to happen. <\/p>\n<p>Things like your internet inexplicably dying for three days and losing your cell phone and the check engine light that keeps coming back on. Oh, and thinking your son has Lyme Disease. <\/p>\n<p>Talk about a crazy past three days. At the rate I\u2019m going I\u2019m afraid to see what next week has in store for me. <\/p>\n<p>The Boy doesn\u2019t have Lyme Disease, by the way. He just got a bad cold with a fever a week after we pulled a few deer ticks off him. That was all it took to send me in full on freak out mode.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I\u2019m being silly. But I swear it. There\u2019s something to these novenas, I tell ya.  <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 They scare me to death. Maybe that\u2019s why I\u2019ve never finished one. Ever. It just seems like every time I start one things start to happen. 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