{"id":4133,"date":"2026-06-06T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2026-06-07T07:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:27:25","slug":"sunday-verses-vision-of-roxanna-6-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4133","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Vision of Roxanna&#8217; (6\/7\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The worst part of getting old \/ isn&#8217;t the brokenness \/ of our bodies or minds; \/ it&#8217;s those bonds that break one by one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4135\" style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/roxannesunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4135\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/roxannesunset-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/roxannesunset-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/roxannesunset.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;VISION OF ROXANNA&#8217; (2017), an oil pastel painting by T.G. Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Roxanna knew she was dying, \/ and she wanted this \u2014 \/ no, not death \u2014 \/ a laid-back image of herself taking life easy.<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t nothing easy about it, \/ you know, from start to finish; \/ it&#8217;s a struggle \/ to find distractions from the hardest truth.<\/p>\n<p>Roxanna had seen an image \/ of a girl playing on the beach, \/ and she hoped that vision \/ of herself would calm our fears.<\/p>\n<p>We could see her sitting there \/ at ease and in no pain, \/ and imagine her again \/ when our promises remained unbroken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RAHN ADAMS The worst part of getting old \/ isn&#8217;t the brokenness \/ of our bodies or minds; \/ it&#8217;s those bonds that break one by one. Roxanna knew she was dying, \/ and she wanted this \u2014 \/ no, not death \u2014 \/ a laid-back image of herself taking life easy. Ain&#8217;t nothing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Vision of Roxanna&#8217; (6\/7\/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-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133","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=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}