{"id":741,"date":"2007-01-08T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2007-01-08T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T21:23:00","slug":"i-have-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2007\/01\/08\/i-have-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a dream&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/6320\/1281\/1600\/651626\/chair.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/6320\/1281\/200\/263707\/chair.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Or rather, I had a dream&#8230;<br \/>When I was a girl, I imagined myself with 8 children (yes, eight!).  In my mind I saw the family seated around a big brown table, eating dinner together each evening.  I imagined loud laughter, lots of frivolity, arms reaching across the table, everyone comfortable together.  I was seated with my spouse at the head of this table, proud of the wild brood that we&#8217;d created.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, that is so not going to happen.  For so many reasons.  The first of which is that having babies is just much harder work than I ever imagined way back then.<\/p>\n<p>But the other day I was sitting at our big brown table surrounded by nine friends.  We were eating together and were all set for a night full of boardgames.  As I quietly counted each person I felt this huge wave of deja vu.  Like this was something I had lived before.  And it was then that I realized that my dream was fulfilled.  Not by giving birth to eight children, but by opening our home to our old &#038; new friends.<\/p>\n<p>I love knowing that so many different people have sat around our table and that I can call each them my friend.  I am looking forward to many, many more pleasant memories with the folks who gather at our hearth (both literally and metaphorically through our online communities).  Like that well-worn phrase that says <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">mi casa et su casa<\/span>, please know that there&#8217;s always a spare chair that we can pull up to our table just for you.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or rather, I had a dream&#8230;When I was a girl, I imagined myself with 8 children (yes, eight!). In my mind I saw the family seated around a big brown table, eating dinner together each evening. I imagined loud laughter, lots of frivolity, arms reaching across the table, everyone comfortable together. 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