{"id":2641,"date":"2023-11-16T18:58:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T18:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2023-11-16T18:58:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T18:58:46","slug":"evensong-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 55"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231116_115828-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231116_115828-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231116_115828-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231116_115828.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I could just scream. It\u2019s like everybody is against me. I\u2019m scared to death, and \u2014 like Forrest\u2019s little friend Jenny \u2014 I want to be a bird so that I can fly far, far away from here. I\u2019d rather live in the middle of nowhere, and then maybe I can outrun this big dark cloud hanging over my head.<br><br>I really do need to get out of town. The people working against me aren\u2019t any ordinary enemies; they\u2019re my so-called friends. For all I care, they can drop dead and go straight to hell. They\u2019re a bunch of smooth-talking phonies who pretend to pat me on the back so they can stab me again.<br><br>\u201cCast your burden on the Lord,\u201d says the psalmist, \u201c[a]nd He shall sustain you.\u201d Yeah, well, how do I do that? Is that just another way of saying, \u201cDon\u2019t worry about it, ol\u2019 buddy. Ain\u2019t nothing you can do, anyway\u201d? They may finally fail, but how many of their poor victims did nothing but pray?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could just scream. It\u2019s like everybody is against me. I\u2019m scared to death, and \u2014 like Forrest\u2019s little friend Jenny \u2014 I want to be a bird so that I can fly far, far away from here. I\u2019d rather live in the middle of nowhere, and then maybe I can outrun this big dark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 55<\/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-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","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=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}