{"id":4099,"date":"2026-05-16T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:29:43","slug":"sunday-verses-clouds-in-my-coffee-5-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4099","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Clouds in My Coffee&#8217; (5\/17\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re so Boone. \/ You prob\u2019ly think this poem is about you. \/ You are so Boone.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4101\" style=\"width: 88px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/coffeefull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4101\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/coffeefull-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/coffeefull-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/coffeefull.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 88px) 100vw, 88px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;CLOUDS IN MY COFFEE&#8217; (1995) by T.G. Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Above the BeansTalk, \/ I look past the Baptists and Methodists \/ to a green valley beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Dark clouds gather; \/ but like continents, they drift apart \/ (like our conversations).<\/p>\n<p>It takes time \u2014 \/ more than one big cup of good coffee \u2014 \/ to get the big picture.<\/p>\n<p>Red sky at night? \/ That just means the storm will come \/ before dawn&#8217;s delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RAHN ADAMS You&#8217;re so Boone. \/ You prob\u2019ly think this poem is about you. \/ You are so Boone. Above the BeansTalk, \/ I look past the Baptists and Methodists \/ to a green valley beyond. Dark clouds gather; \/ but like continents, they drift apart \/ (like our conversations). It takes time \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Clouds in My Coffee&#8217; (5\/17\/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-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099","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=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}