{"id":3372,"date":"2026-01-25T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2026-01-25T11:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:36:57","slug":"sunday-verses-good-and-pretty-1-25-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3372","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: Good and Pretty (1\/25\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>In memorium<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That ride on the golden escalator \/ was already at its lowest level. \/ It should have been shut down \/ once and for all, God damn it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The golden tower never was as tall \/ as it was said to be. \/ The sales pitch was just a big lie, \/ selling fools timeshares on the 13th floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now they want golden parachutes \/ to break their falls. \/ The rest of us are left waiting for an elevator, \/ or we&#8217;re forced to take the stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The golden doors suddenly slide open; \/ we can go up or down. \/ Two good and pretty elevators can carry us, \/ but both are covered in blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In memorium By RAHN ADAMS That ride on the golden escalator \/ was already at its lowest level. \/ It should have been shut down \/ once and for all, God damn it. The golden tower never was as tall \/ as it was said to be. \/ The sales pitch was just a big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: Good and Pretty (1\/25\/2026)<\/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-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","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=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}