{"id":2489,"date":"2023-07-11T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2023-07-28T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T22:27:46","slug":"parking-lot-rhapsody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/07\/11\/parking-lot-rhapsody\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking Lot Rhapsody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Renate-Vanaga.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Renate-Vanaga.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Renate-Vanaga.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Renate-Vanaga-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Parking Lot Rhapsody<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I just got back<br \/>\nfrom Church<br \/>\non wheels,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">where the choir<br \/>\nwas a playlist of<br \/>\nIndie Rock,<br \/>\n\u201cSlow Dances,\u201d by the<br \/>\nbeatific youngsters<br \/>\nwho call themselves<br \/>\nWinnetka Bowling League,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">every bit as holy as<br \/>\na Tabernacle Choir<br \/>\nin a sanctified<br \/>\nHouse built of<br \/>\npolished pews and<br \/>\nsoaring ceilings,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">except now I\u2019m<br \/>\nin the grocer\u2019s,<br \/>\nwhere the aisles<br \/>\nteem with<br \/>\nglorified faces<br \/>\nglowing with<br \/>\nthe image of<br \/>\ntheir Maker&#8217;s<br \/>\nadoring, soaring<br \/>\nLove of every<br \/>\nhair on their heads.<br \/>\nI try not to stare<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">but I\u2019m astonished<br \/>\nthat driving home<br \/>\nthe only thing<br \/>\nin my heart is<br \/>\na rhapsody that<br \/>\nbegan in the<br \/>\nparking lot<br \/>\nat Safeway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Renate Vanaga; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Parking Lot Rhapsody I just got back from Church on wheels, where the choir was a playlist of Indie Rock, \u201cSlow Dances,\u201d by the beatific youngsters who call themselves Winnetka Bowling League, every bit as holy as a Tabernacle Choir in a sanctified House built of polished pews and soaring ceilings, except now I\u2019m [&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-2489","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\/2489","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=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}