{"id":2478,"date":"2025-01-15T20:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:49:14","slug":"fried-and-edified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/fried-and-edified\/","title":{"rendered":"Fried and Edified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2479\" style=\"width:310px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mm.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4ee3913b26cfe09e8142a4090d838d95 wp-block-paragraph\">Choked to the bone<br>on my own<br>life passes by<br>unrealized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-faf5973121ce82d46cc581900d88e88f wp-block-paragraph\">I get older each day<br>in my own eyes.<br>A day closer to death<br>not surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e3c15fc18d01849c7300ef1c06ba310b wp-block-paragraph\">Need that touch<br>that comes from hands<br>Compassion is sized<br>underutilized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7284ae001e8fa44d1a49958cf9b538b4 wp-block-paragraph\">Light brings me<br>one more day<br>I give my thanks<br>undisguised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9ac00cf961d1ea846fe5a532228b76c6 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choked to the boneon my ownlife passes byunrealized. I get older each dayin my own eyes.A day closer to deathnot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,7,3,9,6,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-diydo-it-yourself","category-faith","category-food","category-humor","category-music","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/hippi.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}