{"id":2452,"date":"2023-09-05T00:32:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T00:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2023-09-05T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T13:49:52","slug":"evensong-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2452","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230904_103841-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230904_103841-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230904_103841-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230904_103841-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230904_103841-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230904_103841-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230904_103841-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>People fight with each other even though no one really wins any battle. They break higher laws that favor harmony and order as they pursue discord and chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hostility causes a snag in the flow of time, even when good people try to ignore it. But they soon wear out from the friction. And then they too break down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A smart person might say, \u201cI have the power of choice. I can choose to do wrong and profit from my misbehavior. I can hurt people and break things around me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m smart enough to realize that keeping my world spinning smoothly is what the universal spirit \u2014 the iSoul \u2014 requires of me, a speck of dust in the cosmos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People fight with each other even though no one really wins any battle. They break higher laws that favor harmony and order as they pursue discord and chaos. Hostility causes a snag in the flow of time, even when good people try to ignore it. But they soon wear out from the friction. And then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}