{"id":1005,"date":"2021-07-16T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T17:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2021-07-16T10:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T17:36:39","slug":"the-light-is-coming-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/07\/16\/the-light-is-coming-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light Is Coming On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/isaac-quesada-dZYI4ga2eUA-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/isaac-quesada-dZYI4ga2eUA-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/isaac-quesada-dZYI4ga2eUA-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/isaac-quesada-dZYI4ga2eUA-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The Light Is Coming On<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">How much of<br \/>\nwhat we do,<br \/>\nor worse,<br \/>\n\u201cshould do,\u201d<br \/>\nis deemed<br \/>\nto be<br \/>\nin payment of<br \/>\na debt,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">by the Arbiters<br \/>\nof Holy Books or<br \/>\nThe Keepers of<br \/>\nAccounts,<br \/>\nor worse,<br \/>\ndeemed so by<br \/>\nourselves?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We walk about<br \/>\nas debtors,<br \/>\nalways<br \/>\nin the red,<br \/>\nfeeling<br \/>\noverdrawn and<br \/>\npreyed upon<br \/>\nby the<br \/>\ndebt collectors<br \/>\nof the<br \/>\nSoul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Or maybe it\u2019s<br \/>\njust me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">In any case<br \/>\nthe light is<br \/>\ncoming on,<br \/>\nas late in life<br \/>\nas it may be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The only debt<br \/>\nwe ever owed<br \/>\nwas paid,<br \/>\nin full,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">that first<br \/>\nmoment<br \/>\nwe gasped<br \/>\na breath and<br \/>\nwriggled free,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">that first<br \/>\nmoment<br \/>\nwe agreed<br \/>\nto be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Photo by Isaac Quesada, UnSplash<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Light Is Coming On How much of what we do, or worse, \u201cshould do,\u201d is deemed to be in payment of a debt, by the Arbiters of Holy Books or The Keepers of Accounts, or worse, deemed so by ourselves? We walk about as debtors, always in the red, feeling overdrawn and preyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}