{"id":2151,"date":"2022-10-30T15:45:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2022-10-30T15:46:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:46:32","slug":"painted-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/10\/30\/painted-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Alfred-Leung.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Alfred-Leung.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"423\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Alfred-Leung.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Alfred-Leung-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Painted Prayers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I imagined Prayer<br \/>\nto be asking for gifts,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">of rescue, or<br \/>\nrelief,<br \/>\na check in the mail,<br \/>\na cure,<br \/>\nan answer to a<br \/>\nperilous puzzle,<br \/>\na locked door<br \/>\nopened by<br \/>\nMagic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But what if<br \/>\nthat hole in<br \/>\nmy bank account,<br \/>\nthat crack that<br \/>\nhitches my git-along,<br \/>\nthat coruscating<br \/>\nconundrum,<br \/>\nthat bang-proof<br \/>\niron gate,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">are precious paint?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What if<br \/>\nI should pray for<br \/>\na dream,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">while I\u2019m still<br \/>\nawake,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">where my days<br \/>\nare a canvas,<br \/>\nmy Imagination<br \/>\na brush,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and I see how<br \/>\nto spend my days<br \/>\nmaking Art<br \/>\nwith painted<br \/>\nprayers?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Alfred Leung; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Painted Prayers I imagined Prayer to be asking for gifts, of rescue, or relief, a check in the mail, a cure, an answer to a perilous puzzle, a locked door opened by Magic. But what if that hole in my bank account, that crack that hitches my git-along, that coruscating conundrum, that bang-proof iron [&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-2151","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\/2151","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=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}