{"id":8044,"date":"2024-03-30T17:07:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T22:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2024-03-30T17:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T22:07:49","slug":"the-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/the-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8045\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Illusion-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Illusion-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Illusion-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Illusion-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Illusion-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Illusion.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6>Hypnotized by a tiny screen\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>We waste away, from this gift, called day\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>We scroll, hit like and love and cry\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Pulled into the illusion\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Thinking other\u2019s lives are better somehow\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>As we stare into an unknown reality, like the gaze of a curious cow\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Minutes become hours; we\u2019re addicted to the tiny screen\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Pulled deeper into the deep, black hole, believing it\u2019s a cosmic dream\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>We\u2019re like faded flowers stuck in a vase\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Expressions fade upon each face\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Trapped together in a timeless place, where no one wins, and there is no end\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Round and round and round we go, to Never, Never-Land!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill March 30, 2024<\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>Romans 13:12 New International Version<\/em><\/strong><em> &#8211; <\/em><em>The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypnotized by a tiny screen\u2026 We waste away, from this gift, called day\u2026 We scroll, hit like and love and cry\u2026 Pulled into the illusion\u2026 Thinking other\u2019s lives are better somehow\u2026 As we stare into an unknown reality, like the gaze of a curious cow\u2026 Minutes become hours; we\u2019re addicted to the tiny screen\u2026 Pulled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-25K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8046,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions\/8046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}