{"id":2533,"date":"2023-08-16T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2023-08-16T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:49:15","slug":"secret-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/08\/16\/secret-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/zaur-giyasov-VZfpOWtpw_g-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/zaur-giyasov-VZfpOWtpw_g-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/zaur-giyasov-VZfpOWtpw_g-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/zaur-giyasov-VZfpOWtpw_g-unsplash-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Secret Society<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">When you daydreamed<br \/>\nthat Spark of<br \/>\ndesire to Create<br \/>\nthat Beauty of a<br \/>\nThing You\u2019d offer<br \/>\nUs, as a<br \/>\nGift wrapped in<br \/>\nYour flesh and bone,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">when that Spark<br \/>\nburst into Light,<br \/>\nYou carefully<br \/>\nhid it from<br \/>\ncurious eyes,<br \/>\nimagining that<br \/>\nYou alone<br \/>\nwould labor with<br \/>\nLove,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">to handcraft it<br \/>\ninto Something<br \/>\nWe would receive<br \/>\nwith as much<br \/>\nfervor as You<br \/>\nbreathed into it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">That You imagined<br \/>\nYou were hiding<br \/>\nLove\u2019s Labor<br \/>\nis a fountain<br \/>\nof mirth,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">where Love has<br \/>\na million<br \/>\nmarvelling Minions,<br \/>\ncall them<br \/>\nAngels or<br \/>\nBeings of Light,<br \/>\nhiding in<br \/>\nplain sight<br \/>\nas Your neighbors,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">a Secret Society of<br \/>\nYour Fellow Creators,<br \/>\nwith lifetimes<br \/>\nspent<br \/>\nadmiring<br \/>\nYour Work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Zaur Giyasov; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Secret Society When you daydreamed that Spark of desire to Create that Beauty of a Thing You\u2019d offer Us, as a Gift wrapped in Your flesh and bone, when that Spark burst into Light, You carefully hid it from curious eyes, imagining that You alone would labor with Love, to handcraft it into Something [&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-2533","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\/2533","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=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}