{"id":1858,"date":"2022-06-24T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T17:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:15:35","slug":"laughing-ferocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/06\/24\/laughing-ferocity\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing Ferocity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ben-white-4K2lIP0zc_k-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ben-white-4K2lIP0zc_k-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ben-white-4K2lIP0zc_k-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ben-white-4K2lIP0zc_k-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Laughing Ferocity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I used to believe that<br \/>\nI was the offspring<br \/>\nof creatures<br \/>\nmade from dirt by<br \/>\na distant<br \/>\nI Am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">That after my<br \/>\nthree-score-and-ten,<br \/>\ndirt would return to<br \/>\ndirt, but, if I<br \/>\nsaid the Magic Mantras<br \/>\nof Blind Belief,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">my Soul,<br \/>\nwhatever that is,<br \/>\nwould escape<br \/>\nthe dirt and<br \/>\nascend to a<br \/>\ngold-plated<br \/>\nParadise,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">narrowly escaping<br \/>\nthe burning quicksand of<br \/>\nDante\u2019s Inferno.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But the bad dream<br \/>\nis receding,<br \/>\nswallowed up by that<br \/>\nnightmare quicksand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Instead, I\u2019ve wandered<br \/>\ninto a Holy Land<br \/>\ncreated when<br \/>\nI Am<br \/>\nburst into an Infinitude of<br \/>\nI Ams,<br \/>\nof which<br \/>\nYou and I and All<br \/>\nare One.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The thing is,<br \/>\nwhen I Am<br \/>\ngreets I Am,<br \/>\nAll That Is,<br \/>\nAll that can<br \/>\npossibly be,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">is a bloomfest<br \/>\nof adoration<br \/>\nthat will blow your<br \/>\nHoly Hair back<br \/>\nwith its laughing<br \/>\nferocity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Ben White; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Laughing Ferocity I used to believe that I was the offspring of creatures made from dirt by a distant I Am. That after my three-score-and-ten, dirt would return to dirt, but, if I said the Magic Mantras of Blind Belief, my Soul, whatever that is, would escape the dirt and ascend to a gold-plated [&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-1858","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\/1858","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=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}