{"id":1456,"date":"2022-02-07T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2022-02-07T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:37:21","slug":"novel-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/02\/07\/novel-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/caspar-rae-pNCTI3exMa8-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/caspar-rae-pNCTI3exMa8-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/caspar-rae-pNCTI3exMa8-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/caspar-rae-pNCTI3exMa8-unsplash-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Novel Lives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019m walking<br \/>\nthe dog<br \/>\nwhen I spot<br \/>\nhim,<br \/>\nup ahead on<br \/>\nthe path,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The Man<br \/>\nWith Much<br \/>\nTo Say<br \/>\nAbout Not Much<br \/>\nof Anything,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and now<br \/>\nI\u2019ll need to<br \/>\nput an extra<br \/>\ntwenty minutes<br \/>\non the Walk Clock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Then I remember<br \/>\nthat I have begun<br \/>\nto believe that<br \/>\nhe and<br \/>\nI and<br \/>\nyou and<br \/>\nthey<br \/>\nhave all<br \/>\nlived many<br \/>\nlives,<br \/>\nenough to fill<br \/>\ndozens of those<br \/>\nnovels I\u2019m<br \/>\npining to<br \/>\nread,<br \/>\nespecially the<br \/>\none waiting<br \/>\nfor me<br \/>\nwhenever I<br \/>\nfigure out how<br \/>\nto slip past<br \/>\nThe Man<br \/>\nWith Much<br \/>\nTo Say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But now<br \/>\nhe\u2019s become<br \/>\nThe Man of<br \/>\nMany Lives,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and that\u2019s<br \/>\na whole<br \/>\ndifferent<br \/>\nStory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Caspar Rae; Unsplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Novel Lives I\u2019m walking the dog when I spot him, up ahead on the path, The Man With Much To Say About Not Much of Anything, and now I\u2019ll need to put an extra twenty minutes on the Walk Clock. Then I remember that I have begun to believe that he and I and [&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-1456","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\/1456","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=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}