{"id":3758,"date":"2025-03-03T12:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2025-11-25T06:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:10:42","slug":"ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/03\/03\/ego\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Ego<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some have Imagined
\nThemselves
\nIn the Hands of
\nAn Angry God,<\/p>\n

With an Ego
\nthe Size of
\nan Armored Tank,
\nDemanding
\nWorship and Obedience,<\/p>\n

or Be Blown
\nTo Hell.<\/p>\n

But What If
\nThe Only Deity
\nIs
\nNo Deity at All,
\nand
\nHas No Ego,<\/p>\n

Only an Avalanche
\nof Mother\u2019s Adoration
\nand Sloppy Kiss
\nAffection<\/p>\n

and Father\u2019s
\nFierce Desire to Give
\nEvery Gift
\nHe Can Fit
\nUnder the Holiday Tree,<\/p>\n

for His
\nGiggly Toddler.<\/p>\n

And What If
\nYou,
\na Gleaming Chip
\noff That Block of
\nThe Divine,<\/p>\n

Spent Your Days
\nHanding Out Kindness
\nLike Popsicles
\non a Summer\u2019s Day,<\/p>\n

Explaining to
\nYour Ego
\nThat You
\nNo Longer Have
\nAny Need
\nTo Be
\nWorshipped or Obeyed.<\/p>\n

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

  Ego Some have Imagined Themselves In the Hands of An Angry God, With an Ego the Size of an Armored Tank, Demanding Worship and Obedience, or Be Blown To Hell. But What If The Only Deity Is No Deity at All, and Has No Ego, Only an Avalanche of Mother\u2019s Adoration and Sloppy Kiss […]<\/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-3758","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\/3758","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=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}