{"id":4164,"date":"2026-06-27T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2026-06-28T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:33:02","slug":"sunday-verses-magnolia-on-the-links-6-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4164","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Magnolia on the Links&#8217; (6\/28\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometime around Father&#8217;s Day \u2014 \/ the week before or often after \u2014 \/ the man would appear without warning, \/ ready for a round of golf with his golden girl.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4165\" style=\"width: 143px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/magnolia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4165\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/magnolia-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/magnolia-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/magnolia.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;MAGNOLIA ON THE LINKS&#8217; (1992), watercolor, by Timberley Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whether she played or not, \/ they\u2019d ride together in the electric cart \u2014 \/ maybe he&#8217;d even let her drive \u2014 \/ then she&#8217;d watch and they&#8217;d talk between strokes.<\/p>\n<p>That was their tradition like none other, \/ though the tracks were hardly Augusta \/ or even Mimosa Hills back home; \/ they were wherever he could get a tee time.<\/p>\n<p>But this last Dad&#8217;s Day visit was different; \/ he wanted to play a links course \/ with lush fairways and manicured greens, \/ like 18 emeralds in a bracelet on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>On the final hole stood a magnolia tree \/ and on a lower limb was one blossom, \/ fragile white within tough green leaves, \/ like the love between a father and daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RAHN ADAMS Sometime around Father&#8217;s Day \u2014 \/ the week before or often after \u2014 \/ the man would appear without warning, \/ ready for a round of golf with his golden girl. Whether she played or not, \/ they\u2019d ride together in the electric cart \u2014 \/ maybe he&#8217;d even let her drive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Magnolia on the Links&#8217; (6\/28\/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-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","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=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4174,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions\/4174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}