{"id":2476,"date":"2023-06-29T17:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T00:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2023-07-28T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T22:27:35","slug":"bamboozled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/06\/29\/bamboozled\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboozled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Bamboozled<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s likely
\nYou\u2019ve been bamboozled,
\nthough it\u2019s likely
\nthe con artists
\nwere well-intentioned.<\/p>\n

They imagined You
\nto be a
\nblank canvas,<\/p>\n

yearning to be
\npainted upon,<\/p>\n

the galleries of
\nYour mind
\nand heart
\nhung with canvases
\nbrushed with
\nthe strokes of
\nothers skilled for
\nsuch purposes.<\/p>\n

If they,
\nand later,
\nYou,
\nchose wisely,
\nperhaps the
\ninner galleries
\nare filled
\nwith masterpieces,<\/p>\n

especially if You
\ndedicated the fruits of
\nYour own work
\nto the hiring of
\nMasters.<\/p>\n

But now You\u2019ve
\ngrown weary of
\nsearching for Masters,
\nperhaps Your pockets
\nare empty.<\/p>\n

What if You
\ndreamed
\nthat You awakened,<\/p>\n

and Your hands
\nwere alive with
\na Master\u2019s touch,<\/p>\n

that was there
\nall along,
\nwaiting for You to
\nfeel it?<\/p>\n

Now You can paint
\nYour Masterpiece,<\/p>\n

even if You\u2019ve only
\na handful of days
\nleft to do it.<\/p>\n

Wake up!
\nYou\u2019ve always been
\nthe Master
\nYou were
\nlooking for.<\/p>\n

(Photo by Filippo Andolfatto; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Bamboozled It\u2019s likely You\u2019ve been bamboozled, though it\u2019s likely the con artists were well-intentioned. They imagined You to be a blank canvas, yearning to be painted upon, the galleries of Your mind and heart hung with canvases brushed with the strokes of others skilled for such purposes. If they, and later, You, chose wisely, […]<\/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-2476","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\/2476","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=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/2478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}