{"id":6036,"date":"2022-10-09T19:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2024-02-22T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:00:42","slug":"october-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/minister\/october-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concerns, the confusion and the chatter around the issue of Gender reverberates in my head this morning.<\/p>\n<p>I recall the message of the famous Persian poet Hafiz, who when asked \u201cHow does it feel to be a man?\u201d replied \u201cI view Gender as a beautiful animal that people often take for a walk on a leash. And might enter in some odd contest to win strange prizes.\u201d I so love the way Hafiz captures and presents his meaning and vision of Gender. He inspired me and, from my Heart, I wrote this:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6046 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/poem-laps-have-no-gender-420x414.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/poem-laps-have-no-gender-420x414.jpg 420w, https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/poem-laps-have-no-gender-768x758.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/poem-laps-have-no-gender.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/>Hafiz goes on to offer that a better question for him than \u201cHow does it feel to be a man?\u201d would be \u201cHow does it feel to be a Heart?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That goes for me too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Anthony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Laps Have No Gender&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7780,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}