{"id":2116,"date":"2022-10-14T22:45:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T05:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2022-10-14T22:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T05:45:05","slug":"it-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/10\/14\/it-doesnt-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"It Doesn’t Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

It Doesn\u2019t Matter<\/strong><\/p>\n

You were taught
\nthat there\u2019s a
\nJudgment Day,<\/p>\n

now every day\u2019s
\na judgment day,
\nand you\u2019re
\nguilty.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve written
\nthe indictment
\na thousand
\ntimes:<\/p>\n

Too many
\nCounts
\nto count,<\/p>\n

and you\u2019re
\nguilty,
\nat least
\nyou feel
\nthat way.<\/p>\n

Every day.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why
\nyou keep a
\ncertain
\ndistance<\/p>\n

between
\nyou and
\nThem,<\/p>\n

because a
\nconversation
\nseems more
\nlike a
\ncross-examination,<\/p>\n

a close encounter
\nlikely to
\nbecome a
\njury verdict.<\/p>\n

I have
\na gift
\nfor you.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve learned
\nthere is no
\nprosecutor,<\/p>\n

no Judge,
\nno Jury.<\/p>\n

Only an
\nocean of
\nadoration.<\/p>\n

Dive deep,
\nlet it take
\nyour breath
\naway.<\/p>\n

A single
\ndrop
\nhas enough
\ncreativity
\nfor you to
\ninvent
\na thousand
\nways<\/p>\n

to show us
\nhow to
\nturn our
\nguilty pleas<\/p>\n

into a
\nHallelujah
\nChorus<\/p>\n

that sings
\nout,
\ncount-by-count,<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re beloved,
\nit doesn\u2019t
\nmatter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

  It Doesn\u2019t Matter You were taught that there\u2019s a Judgment Day, now every day\u2019s a judgment day, and you\u2019re guilty. You\u2019ve written the indictment a thousand times: Too many Counts to count, and you\u2019re guilty, at least you feel that way. Every day. It\u2019s why you keep a certain distance between you and Them, […]<\/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-2116","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\/2116","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=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}