{"id":4614,"date":"2026-09-20T04:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4614"},"modified":"2026-09-20T04:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T04:18:13","slug":"sunday-verses-woods-sanctuary-9-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4614","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Woods Sanctuary&#8217; (9\/20\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to come together \/ wherever and whenever we can \/ to save what is left \/ of this once sacred institution.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4620\" style=\"width: 138px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/woodssanctuary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4620\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/woodssanctuary-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/woodssanctuary-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/woodssanctuary.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 138px) 100vw, 138px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;WOODS SANCTUARY&#8217; (2015), pastel, by T. G. Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our chosen paths diverged \/ years ago in this yellow wood, \/ where we had walked \/ no matter what the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Our focus was different &#8212; \/ yours, on the ground underfoot; \/ mine, on the rise and fall \/ of the hard road ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in retrospect, \/ we did see things the same way, \/ though your persistent pace slowed \/ as mine quickened.<\/p>\n<p>But two paths can converge, \/ when things once hidden \/ rise to be seen \/ in the light falling through the trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RAHN ADAMS It&#8217;s time to come together \/ wherever and whenever we can \/ to save what is left \/ of this once sacred institution. Our chosen paths diverged \/ years ago in this yellow wood, \/ where we had walked \/ no matter what the weather. Our focus was different &#8212; \/ yours, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4614\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Woods Sanctuary&#8217; (9\/20\/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-4614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614","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=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}