{"id":12,"date":"2023-08-24T07:23:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2023-08-24T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T08:24:08","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thursday Afternoon<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cover.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:326px;height:489px\" width=\"326\" height=\"489\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">A Thursday afternoon and I am sitting at my desk<br>as the clock ticks out the moments,<br>the furnace churns in steady rhythm<br>and the cars pass purposely by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Another Thursday afternoon<br>when what I do is what I am<br>and where I am is where I am to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">But the how and the why are hidden<br>\u2018tween facts of life and death,<br>loss and pain<br>or is it theology and psychology?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Yet through this window<br>lies wisdom only to be found<br>on the other side of this pane<br>in perfectly full view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">And so, in honor of peepers,<br>robins, sunsets and all the<br>varied and magnificent<br>wonders of this Earth<br>which teach, challenge, frame<br>and enhance our lives,<br>I offer these words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-medium-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/about-the-book#book1\" style=\"border-radius:0px;background-color:#3b4a2d\">READ MORE<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size is-style-fill has-medium-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xlibris.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/853052-thursday-afternoon\" style=\"border-radius:0px;background-color:#3b4a2d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ORDER A COPY NOW<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday Afternoon A Thursday afternoon and I am sitting at my deskas the clock ticks out the moments,the furnace churns in steady rhythmand the cars pass purposely by. Another Thursday afternoonwhen what I do is what I amand where I am is where I am to be. But the how and the why are hidden\u2018tween &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-vip.net\/XLUS\/853052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}