{"id":1822,"date":"2026-05-15T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:12:17","slug":"there-is-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/?p=1822","title":{"rendered":"There is Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a Space<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It seems there was space<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and you showed up!<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8212;Moudi Sbeity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>How unsure we are sometimes<br>to fill a space, to take the step to<br>enter something unfamiliar, even unknown<br>apologizing all the time to be sure<br>that we are not taking up too much<br>room, using the air, filling the space<br>that someone else might need or want.<br>Well, not the poppies blooming in the pasture<br>or the clouds passing by today or<br>the sage that sprouts up everywhere<br>and certainly not the magpies that<br>fill the space with both beauty and noise.<br>The prairie dogs don\u2019t mind filling the<br>space and will even dig more. No,<br>they all just show up and we are glad<br>they did and would miss them if they<br>did not come some spring day.&nbsp; Maybe<br>the space is saved for us and the world<br>would not be the same if we left it<br>empty and quiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a Space&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It seems there was space&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and you showed up!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8212;Moudi Sbeity How unsure we are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aJeL-to","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonniebuerge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}