{"id":2175,"date":"2022-11-22T21:58:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T05:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2022-11-22T21:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T05:58:04","slug":"take-back-the-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/11\/22\/take-back-the-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Back the Pen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/grisha-tadevosyan-y-irGKeBcFQ-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/grisha-tadevosyan-y-irGKeBcFQ-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/grisha-tadevosyan-y-irGKeBcFQ-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/grisha-tadevosyan-y-irGKeBcFQ-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Take Back the Pen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I urge you<br \/>\nto consider<br \/>\nwho has been<br \/>\nwriting<br \/>\nyour bio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Beginning with<br \/>\nwhoever wrote,<br \/>\nor even told you<br \/>\nin person,<br \/>\nfrom that pulpit,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">that you<br \/>\nwere born a<br \/>\nsinner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Or the ones who<br \/>\nreported<br \/>\nthat you could<br \/>\nbe graded<br \/>\nA through F.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Are you still<br \/>\nreading<br \/>\nthat faded<br \/>\nsheet,<br \/>\nhand-typed<br \/>\non a Smith-Corona,<br \/>\nthat your boss<br \/>\nhanded you<br \/>\non his way<br \/>\nto lunch,<br \/>\nthat concluded<br \/>\nyou lacked<br \/>\nan adequate<br \/>\nwork ethic?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">How about<br \/>\nthat bio<br \/>\nthat won\u2019t let you<br \/>\nsleep,<br \/>\nthat last hour<br \/>\nbefore sunlight,<br \/>\nas it weaves<br \/>\nnightmares of your<br \/>\nunworthiness?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Dream your Self<br \/>\na new Bio,<br \/>\nmy friend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Take back the pen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and write that<br \/>\nyou have sprung<br \/>\nfrom the same<br \/>\nImagination<br \/>\nthat only knows<br \/>\nhow to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">let there be<br \/>\nBeauty<br \/>\nfrom Light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Grisha Tadevosyan; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Take Back the Pen I urge you to consider who has been writing your bio. Beginning with whoever wrote, or even told you in person, from that pulpit, that you were born a sinner. Or the ones who reported that you could be graded A through F. Are you still reading that faded sheet, [&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-2175","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\/2175","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=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}