{"id":7596,"date":"2009-12-31T11:45:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2009-12-31T11:45:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:45:22","slug":"congratulations-are-in-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7596","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Are In Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I <a href=\"http:\/\/thenightwriterblog.com\/2009\/12\/31\/you-want-new-we-got-new\/\">went over to <em>Night Writer <\/em><\/a>and read &#8220;The Son@Night&#8221; writing&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q. What do you get when you cross a pastoral intern and a hairstylist?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;my first response was &#8220;an ABC sitcom with lots of &#8220;edgy&#8221; culture-war jokes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But then I remembered &#8211; S@N&#8217;s\u00a0wife, Mall Diva is the hair stylist in question.\u00a0 Which can only mean&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, Faith and I are expecting a little one to arrive in August.\u00a0 That is to say Faith is pretty pregnant.\u00a0 And she\u2019s just plain pretty too, but that\u2019s not new news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, congratulations!\u00a0 And it&#8217;s time to step up that search for a preachin&#8217; gig!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the the whole &#8220;family way&#8221; thing &#8211; my stepson and his lovely wife told me last night that they, too, are expecting.\u00a0 Which means I&#8217;m going to be a&#8230;stepgrandfather?<\/p>\n<p>That can&#8217;t be right, can it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went over to Night Writer and read &#8220;The Son@Night&#8221; writing&#8230;: Q. What do you get when you cross a pastoral intern and a hairstylist? &#8230;my first response was &#8220;an ABC sitcom with lots of &#8220;edgy&#8221; culture-war jokes&#8221;. But then I remembered &#8211; S@N&#8217;s\u00a0wife, Mall Diva is the hair stylist in question.\u00a0 Which can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}