{"id":3565,"date":"2026-02-21T18:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2026-02-22T05:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T05:41:52","slug":"sunday-verses-gazebo-at-sunset-2-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3565","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Gazebo at Sunset&#8217; (2\/22\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The legal battle was over \/ who owned the lot \u2014 \/ the benevolent developer \/ or the crusading islanders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3568\" style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gazebofull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3568 \" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gazebofull-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gazebofull-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gazebofull.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">THE ARTIST holding a print of &#8220;Gazebo at Sunset,&#8221; issued in 1992<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They&#8217;d already fought \/ over crossing the wide moat \/ that protected their castles \/ in the shifting sands,<\/p>\n<p>And the king had won, \/ realizing his plan \/ to replace the drawbridge \/ with a high-rise, concrete span.<\/p>\n<p>But Lot 1A was different, \/ being new dry land \/ that had built itself up \/ with each crash of ocean surf.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, \/ King Ed said, \u201cLet it be so \/ that the people win. \/ Our crown will be this gazebo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RAHN ADAMS The legal battle was over \/ who owned the lot \u2014 \/ the benevolent developer \/ or the crusading islanders. They&#8217;d already fought \/ over crossing the wide moat \/ that protected their castles \/ in the shifting sands, And the king had won, \/ realizing his plan \/ to replace the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3565\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Gazebo at Sunset&#8217; (2\/22\/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-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","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=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}