{"id":4172,"date":"2012-08-19T17:52:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2012-08-19T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:52:22","slug":"because-friday-is-five-days-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=4172","title":{"rendered":"Because Friday Is Five Days Away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m down in LA with my in-laws and need to purge my brain.  As it isn&#8217;t Friday and I can&#8217;t do this in seven nice Quick Takes, I&#8217;ll do it my way.<\/p>\n<p>[+] <strong>I&#8217;m going to be shot for saying this but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/\" title=\"Bad Catholic\">Bad Catholic<\/a> sounds like a teenager wrote it.<\/strong>  Whaddaya know&#8230; Marc Barnes is 19!  Shocker.  I&#8217;m not saying that all his writing has grammar mistakes and sounds like bad text messages but the voice speaking sounds like the blogs I read of 16-18 year olds when I was in seminary.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1flesh\" title=\"1Flesh.Org\">1Flesh.Org<\/a> sounds about the same.  I&#8217;m not anti-NFP &#8212; I&#8217;m a huge fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iusenfp.com\" title=\"iuseNFP\">iuseNFP<\/a> &#8212; but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1flesh\" title=\"1Flesh.Org\">1Flesh.Org<\/a> site sounds immature and simplistic when it&#8217;s not a simple issue in the slightest.<\/p>\n<p>[+] <strong>Jon&#8217;s parents suprised him with tickets to <em>Mary Poppins: The Musical<\/em> yesterday.<\/strong>  After the family cupcake brunch, we took Metro-Link to Union Station, took the subway to the Civic Center station, and then walked to the Ahmanson Theatre for it.  The show was all manner of awesome &#8212; music, special effects, etc. were great.  They had to fudge the story a bit to fit the musical but it was still pretty faithful to the Disney movie with things from the book thrown in.  Afterwards, we had dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bucadibeppo.com\/\" title=\"Buca di Beppo\">Buca di Beppo<\/a> where I had some lovely calamari and enjoyed some of Jon&#8217;s pizza.<\/p>\n<p>[+] <strong>The downside to yesterday: MY FEET!!!<\/strong>  My nice shoes gave me serious blisters on my ankles and my small toes.  I&#8217;d post pictures but the blisters on my toes have popped and are nasty-looking.  (There are also some people who haven&#8217;t recovered from me posting pictures of my foot when I suffered an avulsion fracture in my ankle with a sprained foot.)  I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll be rocking some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldnavy.com\" title=\"Old Navy\">Old Navy<\/a> flip-flops for at least a week when I get home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m down in LA with my in-laws and need to purge my brain. As it isn&#8217;t Friday and I can&#8217;t do this in seven nice Quick Takes, I&#8217;ll do it my way. 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