{"id":1462,"date":"2022-02-14T10:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T18:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2022-02-19T00:08:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T08:08:38","slug":"shazam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/02\/14\/shazam\/","title":{"rendered":"Shazam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Shazam.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Shazam.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Shazam.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Shazam-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Shazam!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I was raised<br \/>\nin Sunday School<br \/>\nwhere we sang,<br \/>\nwith our small<br \/>\nvoices,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cOne door, and<br \/>\nonly one, and yet<br \/>\nits sides are<br \/>\ntwo.<br \/>\nI\u2019m on the<br \/>\nInside,<br \/>\non which side<br \/>\nare You?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Me Inside,<br \/>\nYou Outside,<br \/>\nstill haunts me.<br \/>\nA cursed bias<br \/>\nthat resists<br \/>\nexorcism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But I Am<br \/>\ntricking it into<br \/>\nserving me<br \/>\nas an Instigator<br \/>\nof Awareness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">When it shows<br \/>\nits ugly face<br \/>\nI smile at it<br \/>\nand say,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cThank you for<br \/>\nreminding me<br \/>\nthat those<br \/>\ndivine beings<br \/>\nwho surround<br \/>\nme<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">are neither In<br \/>\nnor Out.<br \/>\nThey are simply<br \/>\nand eternally<br \/>\nthe Beloved<br \/>\nThem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">And, Shazam!<br \/>\nI am Back<br \/>\nOnstage in<br \/>\nThe Mystery,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">playing<br \/>\nmy part<br \/>\nwhile you play<br \/>\nyours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Bravo!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Gage Walker; Unsplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Shazam! I was raised in Sunday School where we sang, with our small voices, \u201cOne door, and only one, and yet its sides are two. I\u2019m on the Inside, on which side are You?\u201d Me Inside, You Outside, still haunts me. A cursed bias that resists exorcism. But I Am tricking it into serving [&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-1462","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\/1462","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=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}