{"id":2485,"date":"2023-09-12T17:40:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2023-09-13T03:52:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T03:52:04","slug":"evensong-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2485","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 8"},"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_20230912_103821-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230912_103821-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230912_103821-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230912_103821-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230912_103821-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230912_103821-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230912_103821.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The iSoul is good \u2014 and bad \u2014 all the time, as we&#8217;re all part of this wholly universal spirit.<br><br>From birth, we&#8217;re taught to fear higher powers and to ask for favor or strength in trying times.<br><br>But when I look out into the starry sky, I see us as flecks of dander on the shoulders of the night;<br><br>And I wonder how we&#8217;ve survived so long on this ball of earth spinning in the darkness and light.<br><br>We are the masters of this tiny world and all that&#8217;s in it \u2014 animal, vegetable, and mineral;<br><br>We have the power to nurture or ignore, to plant or eradicate, to build up or tear down.<br><br>We take all these choices lightly at the risk of littering up our own little corner of the cosmos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iSoul is good \u2014 and bad \u2014 all the time, as we&#8217;re all part of this wholly universal spirit. From birth, we&#8217;re taught to fear higher powers and to ask for favor or strength in trying times. But when I look out into the starry sky, I see us as flecks of dander on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 8<\/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-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","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=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}