{"id":1927,"date":"2007-05-25T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/05\/happy-birthday-ralph\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:15:42","slug":"happy-birthday-ralph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/05\/happy-birthday-ralph.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Ralph!"},"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=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/Rlb_s-d0DKI\/AAAAAAAAAL4\/exAclkmSmX0\/s1600-h\/ralph+waldo+emerson.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/Rlb_s-d0DKI\/AAAAAAAAAL4\/exAclkmSmX0\/s400\/ralph+waldo+emerson.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Ralph Waldo Emerson, may peace rest upon him, was born on this day in 1803. A leader of the Transcendentalist movement which was a major literary phenomenon within the broader culture, was in fact, mainly a spiritual revolution occurring within American Unitarianism. While my taste buds go more toward his friend Henry David Thoreau, there should be little doubt as to the importance of this unique thinker and spiritual leader for our contemporary Western spirituality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-6984558019917165061?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson, may peace rest upon him, was born on this day in 1803. A leader of the Transcendentalist movement which was a major literary phenomenon within the broader culture, was in fact, mainly a spiritual revolution occurring within American Unitarianism. 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