{"id":2588,"date":"2023-10-26T01:32:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T01:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2023-10-26T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T01:32:45","slug":"evensong-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 39"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231025_101911-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231025_101911-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231025_101911-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231025_101911-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231025_101911-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231025_101911-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231025_101911-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I can hold my tongue for only so long. I kept my lip buttoned once and just about blew my stack. It was much worse when I opened up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One little life is nothing compared to the sum of all our kindred spirits. It&#8217;s one small step for man; one giant leap for the homo sapiens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are mere shadows on the earth, our days in the sun giving way to night much too soon. We are puffs of dust on the face of the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are we here? I want to know \u2014 like Job \u2014 because I didn&#8217;t ask to be ground down to a stubby nub. Or to feel like a fart in the wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t laugh. I&#8217;m being serious. If I&#8217;m lying, I&#8217;m dying \u2014 even when I tell the truth. What&#8217;s the frequency? I&#8217;m walkin&#8217; here; I&#8217;m walkin&#8217; here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can hold my tongue for only so long. I kept my lip buttoned once and just about blew my stack. It was much worse when I opened up. One little life is nothing compared to the sum of all our kindred spirits. It&#8217;s one small step for man; one giant leap for the homo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 39<\/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-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","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=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}