{"id":2519,"date":"2023-09-26T22:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T22:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2023-09-26T22:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T22:24:25","slug":"evensong-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 18"},"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_20230926_120103-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230926_120103-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230926_120103-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230926_120103-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230926_120103-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230926_120103-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PSX_20230926_120103-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To quote an old Doc I knew, \u201cLife gets teejus, don\u2019t it?\u201d But I have the strength of my convictions to protect myself, even from liars and crooks who do their best to bring me down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fear of many different things can paralyze a person nowadays \u2014 for example, one\u2019s mortality, climate change, and natural disasters on the land, sky and sea. But I\u2019ve survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve held true to my beliefs and haven\u2019t given in to the temptations that ruin some people\u2019s lives. You know, everyone gets what they deserve. Their chickens come home to roost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Truth is the light that shows us the way. All of the knowledge and skill that I have comes from my dedication to the truth about the interconnectedness of everything in the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liars and crooks eventually get caught and fall victim to their own deceitfulness, because they just don\u2019t believe that a wholly universal spirit exists. But the iSoul is why I survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To quote an old Doc I knew, \u201cLife gets teejus, don\u2019t it?\u201d But I have the strength of my convictions to protect myself, even from liars and crooks who do their best to bring me down. Fear of many different things can paralyze a person nowadays \u2014 for example, one\u2019s mortality, climate change, and natural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 18<\/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-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","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=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}