{"id":23044,"date":"2016-05-05T23:44:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T04:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=23044"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:53:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:53:26","slug":"yimcatholic-is-back-at-patheos-obviously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2016\/05\/yimcatholic-is-back-at-patheos-obviously.html","title":{"rendered":"YIMCatholic Is Back At Patheos, Obviously"},"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>It\u2019s late on a Thursday night, but not too late to write a brief post saying, \u201cYou may not have noticed, but I\u2019m back to blogging again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yep. Check out this graph,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23045\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-06-at-12.15.48-AM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23045\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23045\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-06-at-12.15.48-AM-1024x305.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-06 at 12.15.48 AM\" width=\"540\" height=\"161\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Someone isn\u2019t flying under the radar anymore, Houston.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having flown along on auto-pilot, see, at tree-top level, for approximately 9 months, YIMCatholic appears to be climbing again.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon the pilot woke up?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yep.<\/p>\n<p>Where was Joe Six-Pack, USMC? What was he doing? Did he write the Great American Novel, or something?<\/p>\n<p>He was around. He was doing things. He didn\u2019t write a single line.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s already changed, as I\u2019m banging out post, after post, after post\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Well, not really. It\u2019s not my style to write stuff in advance. It never was. All those years where I was posting something every single day? They were all done on a whim, dear reader. A whim, and a prayer. And that\u2019s how it will continue.<\/p>\n<p>During my hiatus, though, I thought (and prayed) about what it is that I should be doing in this space. I\u2019m not saying stone tablets came done from Heaven with any definitive directives, but one commandment popped into my noggin, and I promise not to violate it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThou shalt not post anything that is longer than 666 words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm. Trying not to concentrate on the significance of that number (I mean it is what comes after 665, and before 667, see?), I got the point. Keep it brief, and to the point.<\/p>\n<p>Can do, LORD!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be doing my best to do what Blaise Pascal said took more time, to wit,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.\u201d<br>\n\u2014Provincial Letters : XVI (4 December 1656).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway, I appreciate your patronage while I put the throttle to the wall, pull back on the stick, and see where we wind up.<\/p>\n<p>Yeehaw!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23046\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2016\/05\/NF-104.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23046\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23046 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2016\/05\/NF-104-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"NF-104\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Punch it! <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:NF-104.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">This photo paid for by your tax dollars.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s late on a Thursday night, but not too late to write a brief post saying, \u201cYou may not have noticed, but I\u2019m back to blogging again.\u201d Yep. Check out this graph, Having flown along on auto-pilot, see, at tree-top level, for approximately 9 months, YIMCatholic appears to be climbing again. 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