{"id":1599,"date":"2022-04-15T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2022-04-15T10:51:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:51:11","slug":"persona-grata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/04\/15\/persona-grata\/","title":{"rendered":"Persona Grata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/carles-rabada-05ci_hxKWr4-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/carles-rabada-05ci_hxKWr4-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/carles-rabada-05ci_hxKWr4-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/carles-rabada-05ci_hxKWr4-unsplash-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Persona Grata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You can trust<br \/>\nthe You that is<br \/>\nYou.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019m not talking<br \/>\nabout the<br \/>\nPersona<br \/>\nyou\u2019ve been<br \/>\nassembling<br \/>\nfrom other<br \/>\npeople\u2019s<br \/>\nblueprints,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">beginning with<br \/>\nyour parents,<br \/>\nwho may not<br \/>\nhave known<br \/>\nyou arrived<br \/>\nfrom Eternity,<br \/>\nalready<br \/>\nperfect,<br \/>\nwhere you\u2019ll<br \/>\nreturn<br \/>\nwhen that<br \/>\nPersona<br \/>\nhas served<br \/>\nyou<br \/>\nand is ready<br \/>\nto be laid<br \/>\ndown with<br \/>\nlove and great<br \/>\naffection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">So, beware<br \/>\ntrusting the<br \/>\nblueprints &#8211;<br \/>\nthey\u2019re endless &#8211;<br \/>\nand don\u2019t fret<br \/>\ntoo much about<br \/>\nconstruction<br \/>\nflaws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It turns out<br \/>\nyou\u2019re in the<br \/>\nCast of Characters<br \/>\nin a dramedy,<br \/>\npart farce,<br \/>\npart tragedy,<br \/>\nall masterpiece,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and the flaws<br \/>\njust keep the<br \/>\naudience guessing<br \/>\nabout what<br \/>\nwill happen<br \/>\nnext.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">So, keep it<br \/>\nReal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Trust<br \/>\nthe You that is<br \/>\nYou.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Carles Rabada; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Persona Grata You can trust the You that is You. I\u2019m not talking about the Persona you\u2019ve been assembling from other people\u2019s blueprints, beginning with your parents, who may not have known you arrived from Eternity, already perfect, where you\u2019ll return when that Persona has served you and is ready to be laid down [&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-1599","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\/1599","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=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}