{"id":2098,"date":"2022-10-03T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2022-10-03T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:38:06","slug":"confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/10\/03\/confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-03-at-11.20.40-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-03-at-11.20.40-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"382\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-03-at-11.20.40-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-03-at-11.20.40-AM-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Confession<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">If confession is,<br \/>\nin fact,<br \/>\ngood for<br \/>\nthe Soul,<br \/>\nI\u2019m going to<br \/>\ndo my Soul<br \/>\na solid<br \/>\nand confess<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">to a sordid<br \/>\npractice of<br \/>\ntreating Gifts<br \/>\nfrom The Mystery,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">those dazzling<br \/>\ndiscoveries<br \/>\nthat arrive<br \/>\ngift-wrapped in<br \/>\nflamboyant<br \/>\njoy,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">as if they are<br \/>\nluminescent<br \/>\nbutterflies,<br \/>\nto be captured<br \/>\nand pinned to<br \/>\nsome prideful<br \/>\ncollection,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">to be trotted out<br \/>\nfor display<br \/>\nto unsuspecting<br \/>\nguests,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">instead of<br \/>\nexclaiming<br \/>\nover them<br \/>\nas they flitter<br \/>\naround fanning<br \/>\ndelight,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">then grinning<br \/>\ninto the breeze<br \/>\nthat trails them<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">as they are<br \/>\nswept away<br \/>\nby sunlight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Sagar Kulkarni; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Confession If confession is, in fact, good for the Soul, I\u2019m going to do my Soul a solid and confess to a sordid practice of treating Gifts from The Mystery, those dazzling discoveries that arrive gift-wrapped in flamboyant joy, as if they are luminescent butterflies, to be captured and pinned to some prideful collection, [&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-2098","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\/2098","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=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}