{"id":3589,"date":"2010-09-24T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2010-09-24T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T17:25:12","slug":"standing-on-the-threshold-forty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thedudeabides\/2010\/09\/24\/standing-on-the-threshold-forty\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing on the threshold: Forty."},"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>[wpvideo JJbTtgNJ]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWorld of Wonders\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Bruce Cockburn<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Stand on a bridge before the cavern of night<\/p>\n<p>Darkness alive with 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