{"id":1104,"date":"2021-09-06T09:48:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T16:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2021-09-06T09:51:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T16:51:56","slug":"a-proper-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/09\/06\/a-proper-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"A Proper Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-06-at-9.25.07-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-06-at-9.25.07-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"373\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-06-at-9.25.07-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-06-at-9.25.07-AM-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>A Proper Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Do you pray?<br \/>\nTo a god<br \/>\nyou have<br \/>\ntouched or<br \/>\nimagined?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">To a higher power<br \/>\nwith a name or<br \/>\nto a Mystery<br \/>\nnot to be<br \/>\ncontained by<br \/>\na name?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Look, it\u2019s none<br \/>\nof my business<br \/>\nwhether you pray<br \/>\nto Jesus or<br \/>\nto Chuck,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">but I\u2019ve<br \/>\nbeen thinking:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">When I\u2019ve prayed,<br \/>\nit\u2019s been as<br \/>\na beggar,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">trapped or<br \/>\ntormented by<br \/>\nwhat I imagine<br \/>\nto be my<br \/>\nneedy<br \/>\nbeggarhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But I\u2019m<br \/>\nbecoming<br \/>\npersuaded<br \/>\nthat when<br \/>\nwe pray,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The Mystery,<br \/>\nor Jesus,<br \/>\nor Chuck,<br \/>\nis waiting<br \/>\nfor us to<br \/>\nintroduce<br \/>\nour Selves<br \/>\nproperly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We\u2019re no<br \/>\nbeggars,<br \/>\nyou and I,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">we\u2019re here as<br \/>\nApprentices<br \/>\nWith Gifts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Vitolda Klein; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Proper Introduction Do you pray? To a god you have touched or imagined? To a higher power with a name or to a Mystery not to be contained by a name? Look, it\u2019s none of my business whether you pray to Jesus or to Chuck, but I\u2019ve been thinking: When I\u2019ve prayed, it\u2019s [&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-1104","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\/1104","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=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}