{"id":1610,"date":"2022-04-19T12:54:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2022-04-19T12:54:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:54:44","slug":"laughing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/04\/19\/laughing\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mieke-campbell-cbrQEHnTJwY-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mieke-campbell-cbrQEHnTJwY-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mieke-campbell-cbrQEHnTJwY-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mieke-campbell-cbrQEHnTJwY-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Laughing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">If you know<br \/>\nthere is a<br \/>\nSupreme<br \/>\nBenevolence<br \/>\ninhabiting<br \/>\nevery precious<br \/>\nSoul,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">no matter how<br \/>\ndisfigured by<br \/>\nthe rigors of<br \/>\nchoosing<br \/>\nto be<br \/>\nHuman,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">you will also<br \/>\nknow how<br \/>\nsuperfluous<br \/>\nand laughably<br \/>\nuseless are<br \/>\nyour judgments,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">whether of<br \/>\nyour own<br \/>\npearl without price<br \/>\nSelf,<br \/>\nor that Other<br \/>\nwhose price is<br \/>\nbeyond rubies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">There is no<br \/>\nJudge,<br \/>\nno Jury,<br \/>\nthey are<br \/>\nfigments<br \/>\nof imaginations<br \/>\ngone awry,<br \/>\noverwhelmed<br \/>\nperhaps,<br \/>\nby the<br \/>\nfreedom<br \/>\nbuilt into<br \/>\nour divine<br \/>\nnatures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But let your<br \/>\nimagination be<br \/>\ncaptured,<br \/>\nfor a<br \/>\nmoment,<br \/>\nby this<br \/>\nconjecture:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What if<br \/>\nJudgment<br \/>\nis the mortal<br \/>\nenemy of<br \/>\nhuman<br \/>\nconnection,<br \/>\nindeed<br \/>\nconnection<br \/>\nwith any<br \/>\nliving thing?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What limits<br \/>\nto the<br \/>\ncreativity of<br \/>\ninfinite<br \/>\nconnections<br \/>\nwould remain,<br \/>\nif you allow<br \/>\nthe Supreme<br \/>\nBenevolence<br \/>\nto laugh<br \/>\naway your<br \/>\nJudgments?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Mieke Campbell; Unsplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Laughing If you know there is a Supreme Benevolence inhabiting every precious Soul, no matter how disfigured by the rigors of choosing to be Human, you will also know how superfluous and laughably useless are your judgments, whether of your own pearl without price Self, or that Other whose price is beyond rubies. There [&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-1610","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\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}