{"id":1012,"date":"2021-07-18T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2024-03-22T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T19:52:20","slug":"fractured-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/07\/18\/fractured-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractured Mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-18-at-8.57.08-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-18-at-8.57.08-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-18-at-8.57.08-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-18-at-8.57.08-AM-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Fractured Mirrors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">If the you<br \/>\nthat is aging<br \/>\nskin and<br \/>\ncalcifying<br \/>\nboneworks<br \/>\ninsists on<br \/>\ncomparing<br \/>\nitself to<br \/>\nother<br \/>\nskin and bones,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">do so with<br \/>\na laugh,<br \/>\npreferably<br \/>\nat your own<br \/>\nexpense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Any other<br \/>\ncomparing<br \/>\nis likely to<br \/>\nend in<br \/>\na walk<br \/>\ndown<br \/>\na dark path<br \/>\nlined with<br \/>\nfractured<br \/>\nmirrors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Comparing<br \/>\nis the<br \/>\nunimaginative<br \/>\ndetritus<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">of the temporary<br \/>\nblindness<br \/>\nthat strikes<br \/>\nyou<br \/>\nwhen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">you<br \/>\nget out of bed<br \/>\nwithout<br \/>\nremembering<br \/>\nto wake up<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">your<br \/>\nageless<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nravishing<br \/>\nincomparable<br \/>\nSoul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Photo by Grace Madeline, UnSplash<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Fractured Mirrors If the you that is aging skin and calcifying boneworks insists on comparing itself to other skin and bones, do so with a laugh, preferably at your own expense. Any other comparing is likely to end in a walk down a dark path lined with fractured mirrors. Comparing is the unimaginative detritus [&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-1012","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\/1012","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=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}