{"id":2379,"date":"2023-04-23T11:50:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T18:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2023-05-05T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:18:15","slug":"to-die-laughing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/04\/23\/to-die-laughing\/","title":{"rendered":"To Die Laughing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/denis-agati-5Vl9oimYlU-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/denis-agati-5Vl9oimYlU-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/denis-agati-5Vl9oimYlU-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/denis-agati-5Vl9oimYlU-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>To Die Laughing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Do You believe<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll meet your Maker?<br \/>\nI do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I make<br \/>\nno apologies<br \/>\nfor it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Why would I?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">As I grow<br \/>\nmore wizened &#8211;<br \/>\nor is it<br \/>\nwisened? &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019m beginning<br \/>\nto think<br \/>\nMy Maker<br \/>\nwill have<br \/>\na small bone<br \/>\nto pick<br \/>\nwith Me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">hidden<br \/>\nsomewhere in<br \/>\nthe huge pile<br \/>\nof gifts<br \/>\nHe\/She\/They<br \/>\nwill have piled up<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">to welcome Me<br \/>\nHome<br \/>\nin an avalanche of<br \/>\nadoration and joy,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">as is<br \/>\nHis\/Her\/Their<br \/>\nWay with Us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">One small bone \u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cWhy didn\u2019t You<br \/>\nlaugh more<br \/>\nat My jokes?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Especially the ones<br \/>\nI told<br \/>\njust for You?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Message received.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I intend<br \/>\nto die laughing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Denis Agati; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; To Die Laughing Do You believe You\u2019ll meet your Maker? I do. I make no apologies for it. Why would I? As I grow more wizened &#8211; or is it wisened? &#8211; I\u2019m beginning to think My Maker will have a small bone to pick with Me, hidden somewhere in the huge pile of [&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-2379","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\/2379","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=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}