{"id":325,"date":"2006-06-13T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/06\/13\/books-are-good\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T13:59:46","slug":"books-are-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Books are Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ijsm.org\/archives\/2006\/05\/01\/blue-like-jazz\/\">Geof<\/a> loaned me his copy of <em>Blue Like Jazz<\/em> and it was excellent and very readable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekking.com\/\">Rick&#8217;s<\/a> comment on it was either these are pretty common experiences on the Christian faith journey or that Donald Miller is in his head. I think that the experiences must be common experiences since I share in them as do a few other people that I know. 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