{"id":3055,"date":"2024-05-15T17:18:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T00:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2024-05-15T17:18:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T00:18:20","slug":"you-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2024\/05\/15\/you-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"You Choose"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

You Choose<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who will You
\nAttend To?<\/p>\n

The Scribe
\nWho Imagines
\na Maker of
\nAll That Is
\nwith an
\nEgo?<\/p>\n

With a Desire
\nto be Worshipped,
\na Command
\nto be Obeyed,
\na Demand
\nto be Feared,<\/p>\n

Or Else<\/p>\n

be cast into
\nDarkness
\nteeming with
\nDemons
\ncustom made for
\nTorment?<\/p>\n

Or will You Hear
\nthe Teacher
\nWho Imagines<\/p>\n

a Father
\nwith an Heir Apparent
\nErrant Son,<\/p>\n

Who leaves Home
\nwithout a backward Look,
\npockets filled with
\nHis Father\u2019s Gold,
\neager to spend it
\ndestroying the
\nSelf Adored by
\nHis Benefactor?<\/p>\n

Only to come Home
\npockets torn and
\nEmpty,
\nBegging to sleep
\nin an empty corner of
\nHis Father\u2019s barn.<\/p>\n

Greeted instead with a
\nBanquet of Celebration,
\na Ring and Robe,
\nwoven of Love
\nthat knows Nothing of
\nJudgment or Consequence.<\/p>\n

Which Story
\nwould You
\nLike to Be Told?<\/p>\n

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

  You Choose Who will You Attend To? The Scribe Who Imagines a Maker of All That Is with an Ego? With a Desire to be Worshipped, a Command to be Obeyed, a Demand to be Feared, Or Else be cast into Darkness teeming with Demons custom made for Torment? Or will You Hear the […]<\/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-3055","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\/3055","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=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}