{"id":2527,"date":"2023-08-06T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2023-08-06T11:36:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:36:56","slug":"the-soul-of-a-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/08\/06\/the-soul-of-a-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soul of a Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/engin-akyurt-1k74aTBKuk8-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/engin-akyurt-1k74aTBKuk8-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/engin-akyurt-1k74aTBKuk8-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/engin-akyurt-1k74aTBKuk8-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The Soul of a Rose<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Imagine You plucked<br \/>\nThe Perfect Rose,<br \/>\nthe color of<br \/>\na rare<br \/>\npetit syrah,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">to preside over<br \/>\nthe table<br \/>\npresenting The Dinner<br \/>\nmarking a Decade of<br \/>\nThe Perfect Love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Moments before<br \/>\nYour Lover arrives,<br \/>\nYou notice<br \/>\nThe Rose<br \/>\nbears the marks of<br \/>\na hungry insect<br \/>\non several of its<br \/>\nperfect leaves,<br \/>\nand on its<br \/>\nperfect petals<br \/>\nthe scuffings of<br \/>\na buzzing bee, or<br \/>\na hovering hummingbird.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Aghast,<br \/>\nyou spy the sticky<br \/>\ntrail of a snail,<br \/>\nwhere no snail<br \/>\nought to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Too late!<br \/>\nYour Lover is here,<br \/>\nand buries the<br \/>\ntip of her nose<br \/>\namid the<br \/>\nmarks and scuffings,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">declaring<br \/>\nShe loves The Rose<br \/>\nnearly as much as<br \/>\nShe loves You.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Imagine<br \/>\nYou and I<br \/>\nagree to see<br \/>\nour everlasting Souls<br \/>\nto be as<br \/>\nPerfect as that<br \/>\nPerfect Rose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Engin Akyurt; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Soul of a Rose Imagine You plucked The Perfect Rose, the color of a rare petit syrah, to preside over the table presenting The Dinner marking a Decade of The Perfect Love. Moments before Your Lover arrives, You notice The Rose bears the marks of a hungry insect on several of its perfect [&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-2527","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\/2527","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=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}