{"id":3984,"date":"2026-04-26T07:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:22:46","slug":"sunday-verses-ocean-isle-bridge-4-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3984","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Ocean Isle Bridge&#8217; (4\/26\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood fences make good neighbors,\u201d \/ wrote that famous old codger \/ whose farm produced little more than poesy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3985\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/oceanislebridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3985\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/oceanislebridge-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/oceanislebridge-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/oceanislebridge.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TIMBERLEY&#8217;S MARSH GRASS brings back memories of life on the N.C. coast in the fall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What did that grandiloquent gomer know \u2014 \/ with his square head \u2014 \/ and the little horse he rode in on, too?<\/p>\n<p><i>We need to build some bridges<\/i>, \/ is what he should have said, \/ to get us together or away from each other.<\/p>\n<p>Mending fences isn&#8217;t very sexy, \/ not like building a big ballroom \/ or supersized arch signifying nothing.<\/p>\n<p>But a good bridge is <em>everything<\/em> \u2014 \/ posts planted firmly in the earth, \/ holding high a strip of possibility \/ way, way up in the everlasting sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood fences make good neighbors,\u201d \/ wrote that famous old codger \/ whose farm produced little more than poesy. What did that grandiloquent gomer know \u2014 \/ with his square head \u2014 \/ and the little horse he rode in on, too? We need to build some bridges, \/ is what he should have said, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3984\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Ocean Isle Bridge&#8217; (4\/26\/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-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","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=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}