{"id":9183,"date":"2006-01-31T20:08:15","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T03:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/31\/parting-words.html"},"modified":"2006-01-31T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T03:08:15","slug":"parting_words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/31\/parting_words.html","title":{"rendered":"Parting words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday was our Parish annual meeting, so I fulfilled my final Vestry duties by (as part of my service on the Nominating Committee) announcing the candidates and tallying the votes.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, &#8220;parting contestants&#8221; and the like have gotten Bibles.  Which is very nice, and all, but most of us have Bibles.  And it&#8217;s sort of undifferentiated.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Craig got personalized gifts for each of us.  How do I know they were personalized?  For one, they were all different shapes.  For another, I received a copy of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0664255116\/davedoesthebl-20\" target=\"_blank\">Westminster Dictionary of Theological Terms<\/a><\/em>.  Which, surprisingly, I already know quite a bit of, though I&#8217;ve already learned a few things.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, keen.  And a nice send-off, along with the standing ovation for those of us who were closing out our terms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday was our Parish annual meeting, so I fulfilled my final Vestry duties by (as part of my service on the Nominating Committee) announcing the candidates and tallying the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5078,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/06\/flocking.html","url_meta":{"origin":9183,"position":0},"title":"Flocking","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Nov-03 7:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"A little over two weeks ago, at our monthly Vestry meeting, our Rector announced his resignation. 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