Our apologies to our readers – we have been in the process of moving our website to an upgraded server this week. Unknown to us, we have had some delay issues with email and now our blog is going Hal9000 on us. Some posts are missing from Thursday but I think we can repost them.<\/p>\n
Thanks for hanging in there with us and we promise to have a faster website and blog. Soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our apologies to our readers – we have been in the process of moving our website to an upgraded server this week. Unknown to us, we have had some delay issues with email and now our blog is going Hal9000 on us. Some posts are missing from Thursday but I think we can repost them. Thanks for hanging in there with us and we promise to have a faster website and blog. 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