{"id":1288,"date":"2021-11-16T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2021-11-16T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:57:45","slug":"mystery-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/11\/16\/mystery-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/trollinho-M5U5mEu9REM-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/trollinho-M5U5mEu9REM-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/trollinho-M5U5mEu9REM-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/trollinho-M5U5mEu9REM-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Mystery Mail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Do you receive<br \/>\nmessages from<br \/>\nThe Mystery?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You know,<br \/>\nthe ones<br \/>\nbearing a<br \/>\ndifferent kind of<br \/>\nForever stamp,<br \/>\ndelivered by a<br \/>\nhummingbird or<br \/>\na saxophone solo<br \/>\nfloating<br \/>\nyour way from<br \/>\nan open window<br \/>\nthree houses<br \/>\ndown or a<br \/>\nbit of language<br \/>\nbraided into a<br \/>\nkeychain with<br \/>\na dangling<br \/>\nparticiple that<br \/>\nopens a<br \/>\nsecret doorway?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019ll show you<br \/>\nthe last one<br \/>\nI received,<br \/>\nfrom a poet,<br \/>\nJalal ad-Din<br \/>\nMohammed<br \/>\nRumi:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cYou are not<br \/>\na drop in<br \/>\nthe ocean,<br \/>\nyou are the<br \/>\nentire ocean in<br \/>\na drop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Which I take<br \/>\nto mean<br \/>\nthere is an<br \/>\nocean of you<br \/>\nbeyond the<br \/>\ndrop in<br \/>\nthe bucket<br \/>\nyou make<br \/>\nyour Self<br \/>\nout to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Trollinho; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mystery Mail Do you receive messages from The Mystery? You know, the ones bearing a different kind of Forever stamp, delivered by a hummingbird or a saxophone solo floating your way from an open window three houses down or a bit of language braided into a keychain with a dangling participle that opens a [&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-1288","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\/1288","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=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}