{"id":4373,"date":"2026-03-22T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:18:44","slug":"expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2026\/03\/22\/expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n <\/p>\n

Expectations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have You Been Living
\nIn a Cosmos
\nWith a Cosmology of
\nExpectations?<\/p>\n

Did The Ones
\nWho Gave Birth
\nto You
\nBelieve that
\nthe Higher
\nTheir Expectations
\nthe Higher
\nYou Would Rise?<\/p>\n

Did The Ones
\nWho Presided Over
\nYour Classrooms
\nMeasure Your
\nGrade Point Average
\non a Curve of
\nExpectations?<\/p>\n

Did The Ones
\nWho Sign Your
\nPaychecks
\nMeasure the Dollars in
\nExpectations?<\/p>\n

Were You Led
\nto Believe
\nThat The Maker of
\nAll That Is,
\nThe Designer of
\nYour Singular Soul,
\nMeasured That Soul
\nWith a Ruler
\nMarked with
\nExpectations?<\/p>\n

That There Is
\nAn Eternal Price
\nTo Be Paid,
\nReward or Punishment,
\nJudgment to Be Assessed
\nin Units of
\nDivine Expectations?<\/p>\n

What If
\nThe Love That
\nFormed You,
\nThe Light That
\nHolds All That Is,
\nThe Laughter That
\nDissolves The Fear of
\nImagined Separation from
\nThe Divine . . .<\/p>\n

What If
\nThe Love Who
\nAdores You
\nHas No
\nExpectations?<\/p>\n

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

  Expectations Have You Been Living In a Cosmos With a Cosmology of Expectations? Did The Ones Who Gave Birth to You Believe that the Higher Their Expectations the Higher You Would Rise? Did The Ones Who Presided Over Your Classrooms Measure Your Grade Point Average on a Curve of Expectations? Did The Ones Who […]<\/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-4373","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\/4373","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=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}