{"id":2021,"date":"2022-08-21T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2022-08-21T08:40:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T15:40:52","slug":"rhythm-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/08\/21\/rhythm-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhythm & Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Rhythm & Blues<\/strong><\/p>\n

I confess:<\/p>\n

I believed,
\nnot so long ago,
\nthat being
\nmy Self –
\nmy \u201cTrue\u201d Self,
\nmy \u201cReal\u201d Self –
\nwas
\nThe Grail.<\/p>\n

I might require
\na bookshelf full of
\nRealSelf-Help books and
\na hard drive stuffed with
\nOprah Winfrey videos.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m
\nwaking up and
\nrubbing the dust
\nfrom my eyes.<\/p>\n

The light that\u2019s
\ngetting past
\nthe piled up
\nwords and images
\nis all the Vision
\nI need:<\/p>\n

I love Oprah,
\nbut I\u2019m seeing
\nI\u2019m every bit
\nas much my
\nTrue Me as
\nshe is Oprah.<\/p>\n

Who else
\nwould I be?
\nWho else
\nhave I ever been?<\/p>\n

Now
\nthe question is,
\nThe Question
\nthat\u2019s serenading
\nmy Imagination with
\nan R&B anthem,<\/p>\n

The Question Is:<\/p>\n

Can the
\nReal Me
\nfinally learn
\nhow to
\ndance?<\/p>\n

(Photo by Drew Dizzy Graham; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Rhythm & Blues I confess: I believed, not so long ago, that being my Self – my \u201cTrue\u201d Self, my \u201cReal\u201d Self – was The Grail. I might require a bookshelf full of RealSelf-Help books and a hard drive stuffed with Oprah Winfrey videos. But I\u2019m waking up and rubbing the dust from my […]<\/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-2021","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\/2021","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=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}