{"id":4150,"date":"2026-06-21T03:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:51:04","slug":"sunday-verses-where-carolina-lilies-bloom-6-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4150","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Where Carolina Lilies Bloom&#8217; (6\/21\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She was his Carolina lily, \/ born down South when he was nine, \/ a farm boy from up North \/ on the Susquehanna.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4152\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/lilies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4152\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/lilies-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/lilies-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/lilies.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;WHERE CAROLINA LILIES BLOOM,&#8217; multi-media on paper, by Timberley G. Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They met in college, \/ her on the fast track, \/ him on the six- or seven-year plan, \/ working his way through school.<\/p>\n<p>She wanted to teach; \/ he planned to preach \/ and do a little farming on the side \/ when they could finally settle down.<\/p>\n<p>He had turned his back \/ on his own father&#8217;s farm, \/ and so going home again to PA \/ was pretty much out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>What they finally did \/ was settle on one hilly acre \/ gifted them by her poor daddy \/ in the land where Carolina lilies bloom.<\/p>\n<p>Between Sunday sermons, \/ he cleared trees and tilled soil \/ on a second acre they bought, \/ giving them more elbow room.<\/p>\n<p>But on a dark Tuesday in June, \/ he died and left his work undone, \/ cultivating one last harvest \/ on his way to the tomb.<\/p>\n<p>His legacy was hard work \/ (or maybe it was hard luck), \/ never hoeing an easy row \/ when a rocky one could spell his doom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was his Carolina lily, \/ born down South when he was nine, \/ a farm boy from up North \/ on the Susquehanna. They met in college, \/ her on the fast track, \/ him on the six- or seven-year plan, \/ working his way through school. She wanted to teach; \/ he planned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Where Carolina Lilies Bloom&#8217; (6\/21\/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-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}