{"id":2079,"date":"2021-11-30T21:54:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T01:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/?page_id=2079"},"modified":"2021-12-04T22:59:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T02:59:57","slug":"wwjd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/wwjd\/","title":{"rendered":"WWJD"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2343 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/cristo-y-buda-3-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/cristo-y-buda-3-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/cristo-y-buda-3-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/cristo-y-buda-3-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/cristo-y-buda-3-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1188\/2021\/12\/cristo-y-buda-3-2048x1280.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>WWJD<br \/><\/strong>Michelle Meyer<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">I\u2019m not talking about Jesus. I never really knew him.<br \/>I mean\u2014Him.<br \/>I\u2019m talking about Judy\u2014daughter, sister, friend, artist, woman,<br \/>wife X 3, mother X 1.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">My mother<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">who I never fully understood, but knew well enough to know that<br \/>if you brought her a beer she\u2019d say\u2014It\u2019s so nice<br \/>to have someone bring me a beer. She\u2019d say\u2014<br \/>My cat never brings me beer, and<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">if she was stung by a friend &amp; the friend quoted Buddha &amp; Buddha said,<br \/>If you\u2019re stung by a wasp will you stop smelling the flowers?<br \/>she\u2019d say\u2014No, but I\u2019d find a different patch of flowers.<br \/>Or she\u2019d say\u2014<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Buddha?<br \/>I never really liked the guy. Or, depending on her mood,<br \/>she\u2019d say\u2014<br \/>Yes\u2014All flowers be damned!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">But probably she\u2019d breathe a heavy sigh and say\u2014Well, WWJD?<br \/>Only she\u2019d be talking about Jesus,<br \/>because even though she never really knew Him and<br \/>even though (for the record) He never once brought her a beer,<br \/>He\u2019s still the only man she ever really trusted.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-medium-gray-background-color has-medium-gray-color is-style-wide\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>Michelle Meyer<\/strong> (@meeshmeyerwrites \/<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/michellemeyerwrites.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">michellemeyerwrites.com<\/a>) <span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">is a housesitter, hiker, and the author of\u00a0<em>The Book of She<\/em>, a collection of character vignettes devoted to women.<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWJDMichelle Meyer I\u2019m not talking about Jesus. I never really knew him.I mean\u2014Him.I\u2019m talking about Judy\u2014daughter, sister, friend, artist, woman,wife X 3, mother X 1. My mother who I never <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/poetry-archive\/wwjd\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079\/revisions\/2344"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/welter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}