{"id":2559,"date":"2023-10-12T23:16:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T23:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2023-10-12T23:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T23:17:13","slug":"evensong-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2559","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231012_160433-1023x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231012_160433-1023x1024.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231012_160433-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231012_160433-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231012_160433-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231012_160433-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231012_160433.jpg 1664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When things are going well, it\u2019s easy to take good fortune for granted. But then everything goes to hell, and I wonder why this is happening to me.<br><br>The larger question \u2014 the one that all the big thinkers ponder \u2014 is, why do bad things happen to good people? Or, more simply, why me, Lord?<br><br>The best comeback is the one that\u2019s hardest to accept \u2014 well, other than the old, Hey, just be glad you\u2019re still around to ask that question, ol\u2019 pal.<br><br>The honest answer? The only answer? It\u2019s a frustrating, Just \u2018cause. And, yes, I know even that response is as ambiguous as an eternity of silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When things are going well, it\u2019s easy to take good fortune for granted. But then everything goes to hell, and I wonder why this is happening to me. The larger question \u2014 the one that all the big thinkers ponder \u2014 is, why do bad things happen to good people? Or, more simply, why me, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 30<\/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-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","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=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}