{"id":1744,"date":"2022-06-12T11:23:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T18:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2022-06-12T11:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T18:25:11","slug":"first-degree-felonious-notion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/06\/12\/first-degree-felonious-notion\/","title":{"rendered":"First Degree Felonious Notion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/navi-qN5j9ki4MWE-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/navi-qN5j9ki4MWE-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/navi-qN5j9ki4MWE-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/navi-qN5j9ki4MWE-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>First Degree Felonious Notion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It\u2019s Sunday Morning and<br \/>\nI\u2019m reminded that<br \/>\nI\u2019ve never fully<br \/>\nrecovered from the<br \/>\nFirst Degree Felonious Notion<br \/>\nthat the Holy Water<br \/>\nin the Sacramental Font<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">is somehow different<br \/>\nfrom the drops<br \/>\ncatching<br \/>\nthe sunlight<br \/>\nas they fall from<br \/>\nthe gutter<br \/>\ninto the puddle<br \/>\nwhere a sparrow is<br \/>\nbathing,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">before the puddle<br \/>\nvanishes<br \/>\nback to the heavens<br \/>\nfrom whence it<br \/>\nfell into the<br \/>\nOcean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The poet, Rumi,<br \/>\nsaid we are<br \/>\nas those drops<br \/>\nin the Ocean<br \/>\nof the Divine,<br \/>\neach Beloved<br \/>\nDrop containing<br \/>\nthe Ocean,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">but some<br \/>\nprevaricating<br \/>\npriests want<br \/>\nyou to believe<br \/>\nthe droplet sliding down<br \/>\nthat tankard of stout, or<br \/>\nthe ones streaming<br \/>\nfrom the showerheads<br \/>\nin that Shelter for<br \/>\nthe Hapless,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">are eternally<br \/>\nseparate from<br \/>\ntheir kin in<br \/>\nthe Holy Font.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Navi; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; First Degree Felonious Notion It\u2019s Sunday Morning and I\u2019m reminded that I\u2019ve never fully recovered from the First Degree Felonious Notion that the Holy Water in the Sacramental Font is somehow different from the drops catching the sunlight as they fall from the gutter into the puddle where a sparrow is bathing, before the [&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-1744","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\/1744","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=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}