{"id":2913,"date":"2024-03-05T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2024-03-05T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:36:30","slug":"the-scorekeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2024\/03\/05\/the-scorekeeper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scorekeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

The Scorekeeper<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do You have
\na Scorekeeper?<\/p>\n

Every One is Different,
\nbut They Do
\nThe Same Old Thing:<\/p>\n

They Record Your
\nApproval Rating,
\none Button for
\nWhen Your Little
\nOld Self
\ndoes Something
\nthat stacks up Well
\nagainst Whatever
\nScore You\u2019ve
\nProgrammed The Thing
\nwith as Being
\nDeserving,
\nanother Button for
\nwhen You\u2019re Feeling
\nAnything But Deserving.<\/p>\n

This Morning
\nMy Scorekeeper
\nwas Stuck on
\nUndeserving –
\nthere was
\nSo Much Evidence –<\/p>\n

When I Had
\na Knock On My Heart.<\/p>\n

My Creator
\nand a Few of
\nMy Light Being Love Posse
\nstopped by for
\nA Chat.<\/p>\n

They demanded
\nI Surrender
\nMy Scorekeeper.<\/p>\n

Then They
\ndrew straws,
\nHowling with Glee,
\nto See<\/p>\n

Who had The Honor of
\nHeaving
\nThat Thing
\nso Far It
\nlanded in
\nThe Garbage Dump,<\/p>\n

Where It will
\nlikely be
\nRecycled into
\nSafety Pins
\nfor a Child\u2019s
\ndiapers.<\/p>\n

Then We had
\nA Group Hug.<\/p>\n

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

  The Scorekeeper Do You have a Scorekeeper? Every One is Different, but They Do The Same Old Thing: They Record Your Approval Rating, one Button for When Your Little Old Self does Something that stacks up Well against Whatever Score You\u2019ve Programmed The Thing with as Being Deserving, another Button for when You\u2019re Feeling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t