{"id":1323,"date":"2021-12-08T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2024-04-25T09:56:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:56:54","slug":"imperfect-metaphors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/12\/08\/imperfect-metaphors\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperfect Metaphors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-9.52.51\u202fAM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-9.52.51\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"347\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-9.52.51\u202fAM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-9.52.51\u202fAM-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Imperfect Metaphors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">A wise man<br \/>\nmade a metaphor<br \/>\nin which he<br \/>\nimagined<br \/>\nWho We Are,<br \/>\nour I Am,<br \/>\nas a divine<br \/>\nand conscious<br \/>\nmovie screen,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">upon which<br \/>\nis projected<br \/>\nthe Thoughts<br \/>\nand Things<br \/>\nwe call our<br \/>\nLife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">His point<br \/>\nbeing that<br \/>\nThoughts<br \/>\nand Things<br \/>\nand plots<br \/>\nand scripts<br \/>\ncome and go,<br \/>\nbut<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Who We Are,<br \/>\nour I Am,<br \/>\nis as<br \/>\neternal<br \/>\nas the<br \/>\nCreator\u2019s<br \/>\nConsciousness,<br \/>\nof which<br \/>\nwe are a<br \/>\nseamless<br \/>\nPart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I was about<br \/>\nto dismiss<br \/>\nthis image as<br \/>\nimperfect &#8211;<br \/>\nI Am<br \/>\nmore than<br \/>\na screen &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But<br \/>\nI remembered<br \/>\nhow much<br \/>\nI love<br \/>\na good movie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Zhifei Zhou; Unsplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Imperfect Metaphors A wise man made a metaphor in which he imagined Who We Are, our I Am, as a divine and conscious movie screen, upon which is projected the Thoughts and Things we call our Life. His point being that Thoughts and Things and plots and scripts come and go, but Who We [&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-1323","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\/1323","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=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}