{"id":522,"date":"2021-03-07T10:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T18:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=522"},"modified":"2021-03-07T10:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T18:38:02","slug":"we-must-insist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/03\/07\/we-must-insist\/","title":{"rendered":"We Must Insist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-07-at-10.09.43-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"589\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-07-at-10.09.43-AM.png 500w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-07-at-10.09.43-AM-255x300.png 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>We Must Insist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Why on earth<br \/>\nwould you settle<br \/>\nfor \u201creality?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">At the very least,<br \/>\nupon arising,<br \/>\ninsist that your reality<br \/>\nclothe itself in<br \/>\ngarments of Mystery,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">so the atmosphere<br \/>\naround you is thick<br \/>\nwith<br \/>\nspirits and sprites,<br \/>\nangels and the<br \/>\nsoulfulness of creatures,<br \/>\nthe furry ones and<br \/>\nthe green leafy ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">And, while we\u2019re on it,<br \/>\nBeloved Ones,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">why on earth<br \/>\nwould you settle<br \/>\nfor only nature and \u201cnatural,\u201d<br \/>\nwhen \u201cartifice\u201d<br \/>\ndoesn\u2019t only beget \u201cartificial,\u201d<br \/>\nbut gives birth to<br \/>\nartisans and artists<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">who weave<br \/>\nthose garments<br \/>\nof Mystery<br \/>\nwe must insist upon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">(Photo Credit: Christina Spiliotopoulou)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We Must Insist Why on earth would you settle for \u201creality?\u201d At the very least, upon arising, insist that your reality clothe itself in garments of Mystery, so the atmosphere around you is thick with spirits and sprites, angels and the soulfulness of creatures, the furry ones and the green leafy ones. And, while [&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-522","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\/522","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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}