{"id":1268,"date":"2008-12-03T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/i-dwell-in-possibility\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:11:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:11:59","slug":"i-dwell-in-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/i-dwell-in-possibility.html","title":{"rendered":"I dwell in Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/STaBqtXgwqI\/AAAAAAAAB6s\/7DPymfLzsAU\/s1600-h\/arms+spread+wide\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 170px;height: 121px\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/STaBqtXgwqI\/AAAAAAAAB6s\/7DPymfLzsAU\/s400\/arms+spread+wide\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">I dwell in Possibility \u2013<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><br>A fairer House than Prose \u2013<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><br>More numerous of Windows \u2013<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><br>Superior \u2013 for Doors \u2013<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of Chambers as the Cedars \u2013 <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><br>Impregnable of Eye \u2013<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><br>And for an Everlasting Roof<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><br>The Gambrels of the Sky \u2013<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of Visitors \u2013 the fairest \u2013 <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><br>For Occupation \u2013 This \u2013<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><br>The spreading wide my narrow Hands<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><br>To gather Paradise \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emily_Dickinson\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emily_Dickinson\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Emily Dickinson<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-7726721250340244862?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dwell in Possibility \u2013 A fairer House than Prose \u2013 More numerous of Windows \u2013 Superior \u2013 for Doors \u2013 Of Chambers as the Cedars \u2013 Impregnable of Eye \u2013 And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky \u2013 Of Visitors \u2013 the fairest \u2013 For Occupation \u2013 This \u2013 The spreading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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