{"id":715,"date":"2021-05-03T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=715"},"modified":"2021-05-03T09:59:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:59:40","slug":"out-of-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/05\/03\/out-of-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A-NOA_talent_show_pic_1.max-1200x675-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A-NOA_talent_show_pic_1.max-1200x675-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A-NOA_talent_show_pic_1.max-1200x675-1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A-NOA_talent_show_pic_1.max-1200x675-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Out of Line<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">How much time<br \/>\ndo you spend<br \/>\ncompeting in those<br \/>\nPageants<br \/>\nyou insist on staging,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">where you line yourself up<br \/>\nwith family, friends, neighbors<br \/>\nand fret that<br \/>\nyou\u2019ll never even be<br \/>\na Finalist,<br \/>\nlet alone a Runner-Up?<br \/>\nWinning is<br \/>\nout of the question.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">In your mind<br \/>\nyou lose<br \/>\nin every category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Next time consider<br \/>\ncalling that whole thing off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Instead,<br \/>\nwrite a book of<br \/>\nlove poems,<br \/>\nincluding a couple<br \/>\nto yourself.<br \/>\nInvite your<br \/>\nfamily, friends, neighbors<br \/>\nto do the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Then let\u2019s have<br \/>\na book exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Out of Line How much time do you spend competing in those Pageants you insist on staging, where you line yourself up with family, friends, neighbors and fret that you\u2019ll never even be a Finalist, let alone a Runner-Up? Winning is out of the question. In your mind you lose in every category. Next [&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-715","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\/715","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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}