{"id":3690,"date":"2025-02-15T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2025-02-15T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:01:58","slug":"operators-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/02\/15\/operators-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"Operator’s Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Operator\u2019s Manual<\/strong><\/p>\n

When The Maker
\nCarved You
\nout of
\nIts Own Light,
\nwith Instruments
\nof Love,
\nUnadulterated by
\nCondition or
\nWhisper of Judgment,<\/p>\n

You were Given
\na Book
\ncalled
\nOperator\u2019s Manual for Light Beings.<\/p>\n

When You were
\nOld enough to
\nRead,
\nand Cared
\na Whit
\nabout Reading,<\/p>\n

You Opened It
\nto Find
\nBlank Pages.<\/p>\n

For Years Now
\nYou\u2019ve Waited,<\/p>\n

Sometimes with
\nQuiet Patience,
\nOften with
\nNoisy Busy Impatience,<\/p>\n

for The Maker
\nto Make
\nMagic Words Appear
\non the Pages.<\/p>\n

When will It
\nDawn on You<\/p>\n

that The Maker Shines
\nwith Bright Eagerness
\nto See<\/p>\n

What You
\nWill Write
\nOn Those Pages?<\/p>\n

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

  Operator\u2019s Manual When The Maker Carved You out of Its Own Light, with Instruments of Love, Unadulterated by Condition or Whisper of Judgment, You were Given a Book called Operator\u2019s Manual for Light Beings. When You were Old enough to Read, and Cared a Whit about Reading, You Opened It to Find Blank Pages. […]<\/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-3690","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\/3690","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=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3693,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}