{"id":867,"date":"2021-06-11T18:42:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T01:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=867"},"modified":"2021-06-11T18:43:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T01:43:28","slug":"the-keeper-of-the-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/06\/11\/the-keeper-of-the-button\/","title":{"rendered":"The Keeper of the Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ajit-singh-wJwx_jSgZuA-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ajit-singh-wJwx_jSgZuA-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ajit-singh-wJwx_jSgZuA-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ajit-singh-wJwx_jSgZuA-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The Keeper of the Button<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Sometimes in the darkness<br \/>\nbefore you arise<br \/>\nyou may feel lost<br \/>\nin a jungle of<br \/>\nunfinished tasks, or<br \/>\nunrequited love, or<br \/>\na shameful lack of<br \/>\ndiligence about<br \/>\nthis or that;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">to the point that<br \/>\nyou wish for<br \/>\na button<br \/>\nyou might push that<br \/>\nwhisks you away into<br \/>\nnothingness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Imagine that<br \/>\nThe Keeper of the Button<br \/>\nrequires this:<br \/>\nYou must first<br \/>\nsit down for<br \/>\none hour<br \/>\nand inquire of<br \/>\nyourself if there is<br \/>\none thing<br \/>\nyou can say for certain<br \/>\nyou were born to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">When you find something<br \/>\nyou will know it<br \/>\nby the way it<br \/>\nstirs a sense of<br \/>\nMystery,<br \/>\na touch of the<br \/>\nDivine.<br \/>\nBut you will know it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Then you will say to<br \/>\nThe Keeper of the Button<br \/>\nthat you have<br \/>\nchanged your mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You see a way out<br \/>\nof the Jungle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Ajit Singh, UnSplash.com)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Keeper of the Button Sometimes in the darkness before you arise you may feel lost in a jungle of unfinished tasks, or unrequited love, or a shameful lack of diligence about this or that; to the point that you wish for a button you might push that whisks you away into nothingness. Imagine [&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-867","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\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}