{"id":2547,"date":"2023-10-07T00:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T00:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2023-10-07T00:40:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T00:40:07","slug":"evensong-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2547","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20200627_134901033-948x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20200627_134901033-948x1024.jpg 948w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20200627_134901033-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20200627_134901033-768x830.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20200627_134901033-1422x1536.jpg 1422w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_20200627_134901033.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people talk the talk, but don&#8217;t walk the walk. That isn&#8217;t me. And I don&#8217;t mind being tested \u2014 what I know, what I do, what I want.<br><br>Go ahead; put me on trial. I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth. I&#8217;m not into &#8220;cults&#8221; of crazies, and I don&#8217;t tolerate two-faced jerks. I detest grand old posses of money-grubbing hatemongers; I want nothing to do with them.<br><br>I mean exactly what I say. I go to gatherings of like-minded people in order to express my thanks and wonder over this glorious land in which we live. But I refuse to &#8220;worship&#8221; with a crowd of cutthroats who are always up to no good and will do anything for a dadgum buck.<br><br>I&#8217;ll say it again \u2014 I&#8217;m gonna do what\u2019s right. Give me some credit. Give me a break. I don&#8217;t want to be a member of any club that would have a phony, lying, immoral huckster as a regular member, much less as its president. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people talk the talk, but don&#8217;t walk the walk. That isn&#8217;t me. And I don&#8217;t mind being tested \u2014 what I know, what I do, what I want. Go ahead; put me on trial. I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth. I&#8217;m not into &#8220;cults&#8221; of crazies, and I don&#8217;t tolerate two-faced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 26<\/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-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547","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=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}