{"id":182,"date":"2011-05-07T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/a-song-of-old-new-england\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:02:11","slug":"a-song-of-old-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/a-song-of-old-new-england.html","title":{"rendered":"A Song of Old New England"},"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><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">My colleague Hank posted this. He is, you might gather, a child of the rocky soil\u2026\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BkQSiDa4v6g?version=3<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Me, I hail from somewhere else, washed up upon these shores\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I find myself thinking of how we are all wanders, lovers of leaving\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And, what might be our true home\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-2587785008852482455?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague Hank posted this. 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