{"id":69,"date":"2025-04-07T19:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2025-04-07T19:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:03:28","slug":"napowrimo-2025-day-1-prodigal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/napowrimo-2025-day-1-prodigal\/","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 1: Prodigal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Prodigal<\/strong><br><br>Scientists say light<br>is both a wave<br>and a commodity.<br>How much would you pay to see,<br>if you couldn&#8217;t choose what?<br>How much to close your eyes again?<br><br>A person disappears<br>mid-stride on the street.<br>It must be an act of God.<br>Or maybe everyone<br>looked away.<br><br>Mystics say God never mastered<br>economies of scale.<br>Efficiency experts agree:<br>most of creation<br>is wasted effort.<br>The sun blazes on dead planets.<br>A Wichita cloudburst<br>soaks everyone.<br><br>Farmer prays,<br>cow chews grass<br>again.<br><br>If I were holy,<br>I&#8217;d turn prodigal<br>and spend my day with the dandelion,<br>drinking the sun.<br>Being profane,<br>I have two cups of coffee<br>and thirty minutes of talk<br>with tedious neighbors<br>while the dandelion&#8217;s roots<br>hold the world together.<br>It&#8217;s good to see them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2014 Bryant Jacobi<\/em><br><em>4\/1\/25<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 1)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 1: &#8220;Prodigal&#8221; by Bryant Jacobi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,7],"tags":[11,12,10],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","category-napowrimo-2025","category-poetry","tag-napowrimo","tag-napowrimo-2025","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}