{"id":3910,"date":"2025-08-01T08:24:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:13:15","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/08\/01\/what-if\/","title":{"rendered":"What If . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

What If . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

What If
\nYou Were Born
\ninto a Tribe of Players
\nIn The Theater of
\nLove?<\/p>\n

Love of
\nThe Other Players,
\nLove of
\nYour Surroundings.<\/p>\n

Gardens and
\nFurry Creatures and
\nJungles and
\nWaterworks of
\nWaves and Tidepools and
\nRiver Runs with
\nFinned and Water-Breathing
\nLeaping Diving Wonders?<\/p>\n

And That\u2019s Just
\nAct 1, Scene 1,<\/p>\n

Before The Clowns
\nCome On and
\nThe Laughing
\nLeads Into<\/p>\n

The Act Where
\nAdam Meets Eve and
\nLittle Ones
\nAppear Onstage.<\/p>\n

But Somewhere
\nA Player Named Fear
\nIs Writing
\nA Book of Rules<\/p>\n

To Tame The Clowns and
\nOrder The Little Ones
\nInto Clans and Clubs and
\nCommandments and Covenants and
\nCathedrals and
\nCongressional Committees.<\/p>\n

What If
\nIt\u2019s Time
\nTo Take The Play Book
\nfrom Fear<\/p>\n

and Let
\nThe Lovers and
\nLittle Ones and
\nClowns and
\nCaretakers of Creativity<\/p>\n

Write The Plays
\nfor a Change?<\/p>\n

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

  What If . . . What If You Were Born into a Tribe of Players In The Theater of Love? Love of The Other Players, Love of Your Surroundings. Gardens and Furry Creatures and Jungles and Waterworks of Waves and Tidepools and River Runs with Finned and Water-Breathing Leaping Diving Wonders? And That\u2019s Just […]<\/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-3910","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\/3910","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=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3915,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}