{"id":619,"date":"2020-07-26T20:31:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T20:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=619"},"modified":"2020-08-14T20:28:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:28:02","slug":"too-little-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/26\/too-little-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Too little, too late?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-20-2020-queen-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-620\" width=\"169\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-20-2020-queen-2-2.jpg 429w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-20-2020-queen-2-2-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-20-2020-queen-2-2-189x270.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Trust.m4a?_t=1597436791\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><br><strong><em>Trust<\/em><\/strong><br>It\u2019s a delicate matter, this matter of trust:<br>for, fragile, trust takes extra care ~<br>walk aware and thoughtful or it<br>will not survive this hardened world, our<br>calloused words, our offhand casual lies,<br>messages left unsaid; decisions, undecided.<br>\u00a0<br>The hurt, or harm, we conspire toward ~<br>we conscript in the name of love ~<br>undermines, traps and destroys our<br>delicate thread of trust.\u00a0 And, surely,<br>binds our own hearts and souls to a<br>kind of limbo, where love cannot dwell.<br>\u00a0<br>For how can love, any love, live or grow<br>where trust holds no favour ~ no value?<br>It is the small, incipient, spur of the moment lies, the<br>self-involved centering of ego ~ that unguarded<br>shift away from harmony into pretense:<br>being what and whom we can never be ~ our<br>refusal to drop facades, and eventually, the<br>sounding and suffocation of trust, which<br>bleeds from our mouths, hung on the heart of our words.<br>\u00a0<br>Yes, a delicate matter, this matter of Trust.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>7-2017\/7-2020<br>By Barbara Helvey Hughes<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen of Hearts wants to talk&#8230;.gotta minute?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}