{"id":3717,"date":"2025-02-22T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2025-02-22T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:37:19","slug":"you-keep-asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/02\/22\/you-keep-asking\/","title":{"rendered":"You Keep Asking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

You Keep Asking<\/strong><\/p>\n

You Keep Asking
\nThe Creator
\nIf You Should<\/p>\n

Keep Trying
\nTo Write
\nThat Goofy
\nNovel<\/p>\n

About a Loser
\nWho\u2019s Spent
\na Lifetime
\nSchlepping
\nBig Macs and Fries,<\/p>\n

After Trashing His
\nLawyer License
\nwith Carelessness
\nand Duplicity
\nand
\nHis Marriage
\nwith The Same,<\/p>\n

Who Tries to
\nEnd It All
\nwith an
\nOverdose of
\nBalloon Gas,<\/p>\n

Who is Met
\non The Other Side by
\nHis Boisterous Guides,
\nWho Send Him Back
\nto Start
\nThe First Church of
\nJeebus,<\/p>\n

to Minister to
\nOther Seeming
\nWastrels,<\/p>\n

About
\nHow Much
\nThe Creator
\nAdores Them and
\nCelebrates Their
\nBeing.<\/p>\n

You Keep Asking
\nThe Creator
\nIf You Should<\/p>\n

Keep trying
\nTo Write
\nThat Goofy
\nNovel.\u2028
\nThe Creator
\nKeeps Giving You
\nThe Same Answer,<\/p>\n

The Same Answer
\nGiven To All Offspring of
\nThe Creator:<\/p>\n

Do You Want To?<\/p>\n

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

  You Keep Asking You Keep Asking The Creator If You Should Keep Trying To Write That Goofy Novel About a Loser Who\u2019s Spent a Lifetime Schlepping Big Macs and Fries, After Trashing His Lawyer License with Carelessness and Duplicity and His Marriage with The Same, Who Tries to End It All with an Overdose […]<\/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-3717","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\/3717","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=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}