{"id":1059,"date":"2021-08-13T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2021-08-13T11:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T18:01:14","slug":"which-leaves-me-to-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/08\/13\/which-leaves-me-to-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Leaves Me To Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-10.30.34-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-10.30.34-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"461\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-10.30.34-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-10.30.34-AM-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Which Leaves Me To Wonder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019m thinking of<br \/>\nthrowing myself<br \/>\na party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019d make it<br \/>\na surprise party<br \/>\nif I could<br \/>\nfigure out how<br \/>\nto do that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">A gift or two,<br \/>\nsomething<br \/>\nthat shows<br \/>\nI put some<br \/>\nthought<br \/>\ninto it,<br \/>\nsomething<br \/>\nthat will<br \/>\nmake me<br \/>\nexclaim,<br \/>\n\u201cOh, you<br \/>\nshouldn\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Of course<br \/>\nthere would be<br \/>\na card,<br \/>\nwith watercolor<br \/>\nhearts<br \/>\nand a clever,<br \/>\nmaybe bittersweet<br \/>\nway to say,<br \/>\n\u201cI love you<br \/>\njust the way<br \/>\nyou are,\u201d<br \/>\neven though<br \/>\nthat\u2019s as corny<br \/>\nas can be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Maybe all of<br \/>\nthat is<br \/>\nnothing<br \/>\nbut narcissistic<br \/>\nmirror worship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Which<br \/>\nleaves me<br \/>\nto wonder:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Whatever did<br \/>\nJesus mean<br \/>\nwhen he said,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cYou should love<br \/>\nthe other Ones<br \/>\njust like<br \/>\nyou love<br \/>\nyour Self?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Ali Abdul Rahman, UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Which Leaves Me To Wonder I\u2019m thinking of throwing myself a party. I\u2019d make it a surprise party if I could figure out how to do that. A gift or two, something that shows I put some thought into it, something that will make me exclaim, \u201cOh, you shouldn\u2019t have.\u201d Of course there would [&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-1059","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\/1059","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=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}