{"id":3842,"date":"2025-05-24T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2025-05-24T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:51:10","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/05\/24\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/arthur-tseng-rWLyPPEo4M0-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/arthur-tseng-rWLyPPEo4M0-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/arthur-tseng-rWLyPPEo4M0-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/arthur-tseng-rWLyPPEo4M0-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Why Do You Think<br \/>\nYou Signed Up<br \/>\nfor This<br \/>\nGo-Round-the-Sun<br \/>\na few Dozen Times<br \/>\non This Spinning<br \/>\nWatery Globe?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Was It Because<br \/>\nYour Celestial Soul<br \/>\nNeeded a few Semesters<br \/>\nin some School<br \/>\nof Hard Knocks?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Your Perfect<br \/>\nEternal<br \/>\nBeingness<br \/>\nNeeded a Ph.D in<br \/>\nFearing<br \/>\nThe Love and Light<br \/>\nand Laughter<br \/>\nthat Made You<br \/>\na Fractal of<br \/>\nIts Adoring Self?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You Must Be<br \/>\nJoking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Perhaps You Need To<br \/>\nLose Your Mind<br \/>\nin Order to<br \/>\nRemember<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You Wanted to<br \/>\nMake Art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">To Paint<br \/>\nLandscapes of Love<br \/>\nand Make Movies<br \/>\nof Kindness<br \/>\nWrestling Fear<br \/>\nto the Ground<br \/>\nof All Being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You Signed Up for<br \/>\nArt School,<br \/>\nSilly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Take as Many<br \/>\nClasses as<br \/>\nYou Wish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Arthur Tseng; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Why? Why Do You Think You Signed Up for This Go-Round-the-Sun a few Dozen Times on This Spinning Watery Globe? Was It Because Your Celestial Soul Needed a few Semesters in some School of Hard Knocks? Your Perfect Eternal Beingness Needed a Ph.D in Fearing The Love and Light and Laughter that Made You [&hellip;]<\/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-3842","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\/3842","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=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}