{"id":886,"date":"2021-06-19T17:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T00:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=886"},"modified":"2021-06-20T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T18:38:13","slug":"unabashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/06\/19\/unabashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Unabashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/steven-lasry-0gYwzjhrMUo-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/steven-lasry-0gYwzjhrMUo-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/steven-lasry-0gYwzjhrMUo-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/steven-lasry-0gYwzjhrMUo-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Unabashed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Let me ask you something:<br \/>\nAre you the one<br \/>\nin the circle<br \/>\nnot saying<br \/>\nanything,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">the one at the<br \/>\nIce Cream Shoppe<br \/>\nsilently digging out<br \/>\nthe chocolate chips<br \/>\nwith a spoon and<br \/>\narranging them<br \/>\nto say<br \/>\n\u201cHelp me\u201d<br \/>\nacross the scoops<br \/>\nof vanilla?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">While the others<br \/>\nare laughing and<br \/>\ninterrupting<br \/>\neach other with<br \/>\nloosely constructed<br \/>\nopinions about<br \/>\nthe final episode of<br \/>\n\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d<br \/>\nor the benefits<br \/>\nof hot cycling?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I know you think<br \/>\nthis \u201cwhy are you<br \/>\nalways so quiet\u201d<br \/>\nmoment<br \/>\nmarks a defect,<br \/>\na connectivity error,<br \/>\nbut it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">If you have the<br \/>\ncourage to be<br \/>\nunabashed<br \/>\nin your silence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">you might just<br \/>\nfind a previously<br \/>\nunopened<br \/>\nentrance to<br \/>\nThe Mystery<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">that will open<br \/>\nitself to you<br \/>\nwhile you<br \/>\nabsent-mindedly<br \/>\nrearrange the<br \/>\nchocolate chips to<br \/>\nsay<br \/>\nEUREKA!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Steven Lasry, UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Unabashed Let me ask you something: Are you the one in the circle not saying anything, the one at the Ice Cream Shoppe silently digging out the chocolate chips with a spoon and arranging them to say \u201cHelp me\u201d across the scoops of vanilla? While the others are laughing and interrupting each other with [&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-886","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\/886","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=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}