{"id":10554,"date":"2006-12-23T00:12:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T07:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/12\/23\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-loaves-and-fish-2.html"},"modified":"2006-12-23T00:12:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T07:12:56","slug":"so_long_and_thanks_for_al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/23\/so_long_and_thanks_for_al.html","title":{"rendered":"So long, and thanks for all the (loaves and) fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, after all the ongoing brouhaha by conservative parishes and parishioners within the Episcopal Church, I am more joyful than saddened (though a bit of both) by the votes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/18\/us\/18episcopal.html?ex=1324098000&amp;en=7ffa2eb78b23a8a9&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\">various parishes<\/a> to break away from TEC and join up with the &#8220;Not only do we think it&#8217;s wrong, but we think it should be outlawed and illegal to talk about&#8221; 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