{"id":1940,"date":"2022-07-22T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2022-07-23T13:32:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T20:32:13","slug":"staying-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/07\/22\/staying-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying Indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/josh-applegate-cwGk-u9PHOo-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/josh-applegate-cwGk-u9PHOo-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/josh-applegate-cwGk-u9PHOo-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/josh-applegate-cwGk-u9PHOo-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Staying Indoors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It began<br \/>\ninnocently enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I was helpless,<br \/>\nbeing rolled around<br \/>\nin a stroller,<br \/>\ndrooling all over<br \/>\nmy little bib and tucker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But before I end up,<br \/>\nseventy years later,<br \/>\nbeing rolled around<br \/>\nin a stroller,<br \/>\ndrooling all over<br \/>\nmy little bib and tucker,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I want to figure out<br \/>\nwhy I\u2019m still letting<br \/>\nthe grownups<br \/>\ntell me Who I Am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cYou\u2019re such a good<br \/>\nlittle reader, but<br \/>\nyou shouldn\u2019t<br \/>\nread that;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">be a good boy,<br \/>\nand give your heart<br \/>\nto Jesus;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">don\u2019t touch that,<br \/>\nor I\u2019ll get my<br \/>\nstick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Everybody loves<br \/>\nthat movie,<br \/>\nwhat\u2019s wrong<br \/>\nwith you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Why are you still<br \/>\ninside, Stevie?<br \/>\nGo outside and play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What do you mean,<br \/>\nyou\u2019re not coming?<br \/>\nThe whole neighborhood<br \/>\nwill be there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Meanwhile,<br \/>\nmy Maker<br \/>\nfinds ways to<br \/>\nremind me that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">the thing about<br \/>\nbeing offspring of<br \/>\nThe Divine is<br \/>\nyou are<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">cherished,<br \/>\nadored,<br \/>\nbeloved,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">even when<br \/>\nyou stay indoors<br \/>\nto read that book<br \/>\nyou\u2019re not supposed<br \/>\nto read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Josh Applegate; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Staying Indoors It began innocently enough. I was helpless, being rolled around in a stroller, drooling all over my little bib and tucker. But before I end up, seventy years later, being rolled around in a stroller, drooling all over my little bib and tucker, I want to figure out why I\u2019m still letting [&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-1940","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\/1940","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=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}