{"id":4035,"date":"2025-10-28T08:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:08:16","slug":"cosmic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/10\/28\/cosmic-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Cosmic Con<\/strong><\/p>\n

You May Be
\nThe Victim of
\na Cosmic Con.<\/p>\n

Were You
\nInDoctrineTainted
\nWith the Instruction
\nThat Your Adoring
\nMaker,
\nCreator of
\nAll That Is
\nLove
\nand
\nLight
\nand
\nLaughter,<\/p>\n

Made You
\nBecause
\nHe Needed to Be
\nWorshipped and
\nObeyed?<\/p>\n

Or Else<\/p>\n

You\u2019d Be Roasted
\nOver Fire and Brimstone,<\/p>\n

a Barbecue
\nHosted by
\na Renegade Angel and
\nHis Demons?<\/p>\n

Come Away
\nfrom that Non
\nSense<\/p>\n

Into the Arms of
\nThe One<\/p>\n

of Which Your
\nSoul Is
\na Gleaming Fractal,
\nan Inseparable Ray.<\/p>\n

Just Be
\nThere
\nand Shine,<\/p>\n

Showing
\nThe Way
\nto Escape
\nThe Con.<\/p>\n

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

  Cosmic Con You May Be The Victim of a Cosmic Con. Were You InDoctrineTainted With the Instruction That Your Adoring Maker, Creator of All That Is Love and Light and Laughter, Made You Because He Needed to Be Worshipped and Obeyed? Or Else You\u2019d Be Roasted Over Fire and Brimstone, a Barbecue Hosted by […]<\/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-4035","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\/4035","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=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}