{"id":2268,"date":"2023-02-20T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2023-02-20T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T02:55:08","slug":"asking-for-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/02\/20\/asking-for-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking for a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-20-at-6.24.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-20-at-6.24.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-20-at-6.24.12-PM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-20-at-6.24.12-PM-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Asking for a Friend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Who is braver,<br \/>\nthat squirrel<br \/>\ntightroping<br \/>\nacross Your<br \/>\nclothesline,<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nthat spider<br \/>\ndangling by<br \/>\na filament<br \/>\nthe size of<br \/>\na baby\u2019s hair?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What is more beautiful,<br \/>\na rosebud<br \/>\nsprinkled by pollen<br \/>\nthe color of moondust<br \/>\nor<br \/>\na string of bubbles<br \/>\nfilled with a<br \/>\nbreath<br \/>\nblown by Your<br \/>\nfirst grandchild?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What sounds more heavenly,<br \/>\nthe cry of<br \/>\nthe Great Grey Owl<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nthe melody<br \/>\nfloating through<br \/>\nYour neighborhood<br \/>\nfrom the bell<br \/>\nof a tenor sax<br \/>\nbeing blown<br \/>\nby the white-haired<br \/>\nsole survivor<br \/>\nof a trio<br \/>\nthat used to play<br \/>\nin Paris,<br \/>\nwho now lives<br \/>\nnext door?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Speaking of heaven,<br \/>\nis is said that<br \/>\nSt. Peter guards<br \/>\nthe gate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Who gets in,<br \/>\nYou<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nSt. Francis of Assisi?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Photo by Maryna Nikolaieva; UnSplash<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Asking for a Friend Who is braver, that squirrel tightroping across Your clothesline, or that spider dangling by a filament the size of a baby\u2019s hair? What is more beautiful, a rosebud sprinkled by pollen the color of moondust or a string of bubbles filled with a breath blown by Your first grandchild? What [&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-2268","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\/2268","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=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}