{"id":3693,"date":"2026-03-06T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:57:45","slug":"sunday-verses-live-oak-at-gause-landing-march-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3693","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: Live Oak at &#8216;Gause Landing&#8217; (3\/8\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Were there two trees \/ in the storied Garden of Eden, \/ or was there just one?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3694\" style=\"width: 136px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gauselanding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3694\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gauselanding-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gauselanding-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/gauselanding.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;GAUSE LANDING&#8217; (circa 1996), an acrylic painting by Timberley Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Tree of Life \/ and the Tree of the Knowledge \/ of Good and Evil:<\/p>\n<p>One, a live oak; \/ the other, a sacred fig \/ for both food and shelter?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my guess, \/ if the two trees were different; \/ so now riddle me this:<\/p>\n<p>What kind of life \/ knows not wrong from right \/ and just exists in ignorant bliss?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RAHN ADAMS Were there two trees \/ in the storied Garden of Eden, \/ or was there just one? The Tree of Life \/ and the Tree of the Knowledge \/ of Good and Evil: One, a live oak; \/ the other, a sacred fig \/ for both food and shelter? That&#8217;s my guess, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: Live Oak at &#8216;Gause Landing&#8217; (3\/8\/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-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","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=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3710,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}