{"id":4650,"date":"2026-05-13T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:03:20","slug":"hang-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2026\/05\/13\/hang-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Hang Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jayson-hinrichsen-4lgvjSi7Xr0-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jayson-hinrichsen-4lgvjSi7Xr0-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jayson-hinrichsen-4lgvjSi7Xr0-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jayson-hinrichsen-4lgvjSi7Xr0-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Hang Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I\u2019ll Honor Your Own<br \/>\nSightlines<br \/>\nBy Presaging This With<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What IF . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The Maker of All That Is<br \/>\nLove and Light, Joy and Laughter<br \/>\nHas No Wish<br \/>\nTo Be Worshipped and Obeyed,<br \/>\nNo Desire<br \/>\nTo Be Served.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What IF . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">She Just Wants To<br \/>\nHang Out With You,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Listen To Your Heart Beat<br \/>\nIts Stories of<br \/>\nJoy or Despair,<br \/>\nGladness or Sadness,<br \/>\nHilarity or Amazement?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Think of Your Stories As<br \/>\nPrayers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What IF . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">He Just Wants To<br \/>\nComfort You,<br \/>\nBump Fists with You,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Come Up With<br \/>\nThe Next Line to<br \/>\nThat Poem<br \/>\nYou\u2019ve Been Playing With,<br \/>\nFlash You an Image<br \/>\nfor That Watercolor<br \/>\nYou Daydream About?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Think of These As<br \/>\nAnswers To Prayers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What IF . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">She\u2019s Sitting With You,<br \/>\nRight There On the Couch?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">He\u2019s Got His Arm Around You,<br \/>\nPulling You Close?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo By Jason Hinrich; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hang Time I\u2019ll Honor Your Own Sightlines By Presaging This With What IF . . . The Maker of All That Is Love and Light, Joy and Laughter Has No Wish To Be Worshipped and Obeyed, No Desire To Be Served. What IF . . . She Just Wants To Hang Out With 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-4650","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\/4650","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=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}