{"id":3932,"date":"2026-04-11T15:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:24:47","slug":"sunday-verses-how-far-is-too-far-4-12-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3932","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;How Far Is Too Far?&#8217; (4\/12\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3933\" style=\"width: 143px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batteredwomandetail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3933\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batteredwomandetail-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batteredwomandetail-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batteredwomandetail-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/batteredwomandetail.jpg 1071w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DETAIL from mixed-media work created for a 1990s domestic violence exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So many questions. \/ Only one answer. \/ He was a player. \/ She was a dancer.<\/p>\n<p>He gave her money \u2014 \/ the start of the deal. \/ She took his surname \/ and made it for real.<\/p>\n<p>She gave him a son \/ so he wouldn&#8217;t roam. \/ He smacked her around \/ and took off from home.<\/p>\n<p>He went to Vegas, \/ to gamble and whore. \/ When she took him back, \/ he beat her some more.<\/p>\n<p>But she wouldn&#8217;t leave, \/ and we know her fate. \/ How far is too far? \/ By then it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RAHN ADAMS So many questions. \/ Only one answer. \/ He was a player. \/ She was a dancer. He gave her money \u2014 \/ the start of the deal. \/ She took his surname \/ and made it for real. She gave him a son \/ so he wouldn&#8217;t roam. \/ He smacked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3932\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;How Far Is Too Far?&#8217; (4\/12\/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-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","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=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}