{"id":1209,"date":"2021-10-20T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T22:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2021-10-20T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T22:23:30","slug":"youve-been-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/10\/20\/youve-been-warned\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve Been Warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bruce-mars-nx_l5qUzxUU-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bruce-mars-nx_l5qUzxUU-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bruce-mars-nx_l5qUzxUU-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/bruce-mars-nx_l5qUzxUU-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>You\u2019ve Been Warned<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I have<br \/>\na challenge<br \/>\nfor you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Not one of<br \/>\nthose TikTok<br \/>\nthings<br \/>\nwhere you dance<br \/>\ntill your<br \/>\nclothes<br \/>\nfall off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">This is<br \/>\nmuch more<br \/>\ndemanding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Find a place<br \/>\nto sit<br \/>\ncomfortably.<br \/>\nYou may<br \/>\nbe here<br \/>\nfor awhile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Start thinking.<br \/>\nThink.<br \/>\nThink.<br \/>\nThink.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">If the urge<br \/>\nto do<br \/>\nsomething<br \/>\n\u201cmore productive\u201d<br \/>\nassails you,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">swat it away<br \/>\nlike a pesky<br \/>\nmosquito.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">(If an actual<br \/>\nmosquito<br \/>\nassails you,<br \/>\nno need to<br \/>\nkill it.<br \/>\nJust swat it<br \/>\naway<br \/>\nfirmly.<br \/>\nMosquitos<br \/>\nhave souls<br \/>\ntoo.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Think.<br \/>\nThink.<br \/>\nThink.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Perhaps<br \/>\nfor hours.<br \/>\nKeep swatting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Warning:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The Mystery<br \/>\nlikes to<br \/>\nshoot bolts<br \/>\nof electric<br \/>\ninspiration<br \/>\nto do wild<br \/>\nartful things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You are a<br \/>\nsitting target.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Don\u2019t say<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t<br \/>\nwarn you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Bruce Mars; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You\u2019ve Been Warned I have a challenge for you. Not one of those TikTok things where you dance till your clothes fall off. This is much more demanding. Find a place to sit comfortably. You may be here for awhile. Start thinking. Think. Think. Think. If the urge to do something \u201cmore productive\u201d assails [&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-1209","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\/1209","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=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}