{"id":2121,"date":"2022-10-20T14:10:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2022-10-20T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:56:33","slug":"question-in-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/10\/20\/question-in-a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Question In a Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/terry-vlisidis-SFEvfN01-ao-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/terry-vlisidis-SFEvfN01-ao-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/terry-vlisidis-SFEvfN01-ao-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/terry-vlisidis-SFEvfN01-ao-unsplash-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Question In a Question<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">A favorite<br \/>\nteacher asks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cIs the writing<br \/>\nyou\u2019re offering<br \/>\nwhat you most<br \/>\nwant to offer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">To which I reply:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Aha!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I see the question<br \/>\nin the question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cAm I being<br \/>\nWho<br \/>\nI most<br \/>\nwant to<br \/>\nbe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But the answers<br \/>\nseem to me<br \/>\nto be quite<br \/>\ndifferent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">In writing,<br \/>\nI choose this,<br \/>\nnot that,<br \/>\n(though<br \/>\nthe choice<br \/>\nalways feels<br \/>\npredestined.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">As for me,<br \/>\nBeing Who<br \/>\nI most<br \/>\nwant to Be<br \/>\nwas Answered<br \/>\nInfinities ago,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">when the<br \/>\nOcean<br \/>\ncontained<br \/>\nin each drop<br \/>\nthat we are<br \/>\nsaid<br \/>\nI Am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">* * * * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Thank you to<br \/>\na favorite teacher,<br \/>\nBill Kenower.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.authormagazine.org\/editorsblog\/2022\/10\/20\/great-expectations\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.authormagazine.org\/<br \/>\neditorsblog\/2022\/10\/20\/great-expectations<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">* * * * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cOcean in a drop\u201d by Persian Poet<br \/>\nJalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">* * * * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Terry Vlisidis; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Question In a Question A favorite teacher asks: \u201cIs the writing you\u2019re offering what you most want to offer?\u201d To which I reply: Aha! I see the question in the question: \u201cAm I being Who I most want to be?\u201d But the answers seem to me to be quite different. In writing, I choose [&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-2121","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\/2121","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=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}