{"id":2197,"date":"2022-12-08T12:44:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2022-12-08T12:44:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:44:17","slug":"open-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/12\/08\/open-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-at-12.18.24-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-at-12.18.24-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-at-12.18.24-PM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-08-at-12.18.24-PM-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Open Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You say<br \/>\nyour Life is<br \/>\nan open book,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">but,<br \/>\nthe question is,<br \/>\nwho\u2019s writing it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Did you imagine<br \/>\nyou were meant to<br \/>\nsend out invitations,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">asking for<br \/>\nsubmissions to<br \/>\nan anthology,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">every chapter<br \/>\nsomeone else\u2019s version<br \/>\nof your story,<br \/>\nas if their version<br \/>\nmust be better than<br \/>\nyour own?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Their adventures<br \/>\nmore interesting<br \/>\nthan your<br \/>\nmisadventures?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Their successes<br \/>\nmore captivating<br \/>\nthan your<br \/>\ndid-the-best-you-coulds?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Their hard work<br \/>\nmore impressive<br \/>\nthan your<br \/>\nslacker escapades?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Did you imagine<br \/>\nyou\u2019ll need<br \/>\nan agent<br \/>\nto persuade<br \/>\na major publisher<br \/>\nto consider your book<br \/>\nworthy of publication?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Sort of like<br \/>\nJesus making a pitch to<br \/>\na judgmental God?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019m thinking of<br \/>\ntaking my own<br \/>\nadvice:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Write your own book.<br \/>\nPublish it your Self.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Yusuf Evli; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Open Book You say your Life is an open book, but, the question is, who\u2019s writing it? Did you imagine you were meant to send out invitations, asking for submissions to an anthology, every chapter someone else\u2019s version of your story, as if their version must be better than your own? Their adventures more [&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-2197","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\/2197","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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}