{"id":2040,"date":"2022-09-04T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T14:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2022-09-04T07:41:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T14:41:58","slug":"birthday-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/09\/04\/birthday-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/edward-howell-HXCVD8SYcQM-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/edward-howell-HXCVD8SYcQM-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"414\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/edward-howell-HXCVD8SYcQM-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/edward-howell-HXCVD8SYcQM-unsplash-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Birthday Card<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Suppose your<br \/>\nBeloved,<br \/>\non the day<br \/>\nmarking your<br \/>\nbirth,<br \/>\ngave you a card,<br \/>\nwritten<br \/>\nin her own<br \/>\nhand,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">in which she<br \/>\nextolled,<br \/>\none-by-one,<br \/>\nher love and<br \/>\nappreciation<br \/>\nfor the ways<br \/>\nin which<br \/>\nshe insists<br \/>\nyou have demonstrated<br \/>\nyour love<br \/>\nfor her,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">including<br \/>\nrefilling her<br \/>\nmorning<br \/>\ncoffee cup<br \/>\nwithout being<br \/>\nasked,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and you know,<br \/>\nfor a hard fact,<br \/>\nto do so<br \/>\nshe must overlook<br \/>\nthe messy myriad<br \/>\nof ways<br \/>\nin which you<br \/>\nhave been<br \/>\nanything but<br \/>\nloving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Darling,<br \/>\nlet me sadly<br \/>\ncount<br \/>\nthe ways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Would your<br \/>\nheart fill<br \/>\ntill it leaked<br \/>\nfrom your eyes?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Would you know<br \/>\nyou have discovered<br \/>\nterritory in<br \/>\nher heart<br \/>\nthat makes you<br \/>\nbelieve<br \/>\nthere must be<br \/>\nvast places<br \/>\nyet to be found,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">even though<br \/>\nyou just turned<br \/>\nseventy-three<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and her hair,<br \/>\nand yours,<br \/>\nis whiter<br \/>\nthan ash from<br \/>\na well-hidden<br \/>\nflame?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Edward Howell; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Birthday Card Suppose your Beloved, on the day marking your birth, gave you a card, written in her own hand, in which she extolled, one-by-one, her love and appreciation for the ways in which she insists you have demonstrated your love for her, including refilling her morning coffee cup without being asked, and you [&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-2040","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\/2040","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=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}