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<\/p>\nI’m taking time out from our regular Olympic programming for a special bulletin to my Abilene readers. Please be on the lookout for this man:<\/p>\n
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He was last spotted headed west “on the road to Abilene”<\/a> with his wife Janet and a van full of kids. But don’t worry, he’s not dangerous; he’s just a little wordy sometimes.<\/p>\n You see, Doug is headed there to fulfill a lifetime dream of teaching in the journalism department at his alma mater, Abilene Christian University<\/a>. For years, he’s been working at The Huntsville Times<\/em> and writing a regular column “Soul Food,”<\/a> which he also turned into a book, How Jesus Ended Up in the Food Court: Seventy-seven Devotional Thoughts You Never Thought About Before.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n We’ve known Doug and Janet since our Nashville days. Doug and I have taught Bible class together and we’ve spent many an hour near a soccer pitch watching our kids play over the years. Doug also encouraged me to throw my hat in the ring for community columnist, and for that I’m grateful.<\/p>\n We’ll miss them greatly, but thankfully his column will still be appearing weekly and the future journalists at ACU are going to be getting one heck of an education from a bona fide real-world newspaperman who’s “been there and done that.”<\/p>\n If you spot him, give him one of those warm, West Texas welcomes and tell him The Eyeguy said “howdy.”<\/p>\n We now return you to our regular programming on Ocular Fusion<\/em>, your best source for Olympic news from a Restorationist, Stone-Campbell perspective.\n<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m taking time out from our regular Olympic programming for a special bulletin to my Abilene readers. Please be on the lookout for this man: He was last spotted headed west “on the road to Abilene”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,25,22,33,1,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-beijing-olympics","category-books","category-christianity","category-churches-of-christ","category-general","category-huntsville","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9348,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/9348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}