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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Two Poles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He set up two tall poles, a distance apart.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I said \u201cWhat is this? A new type of art??\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He said \u201cNo, this will rate the winner.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cExcuse me, did you say winter??\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cNo, I said it will rate the winner.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t get it. The winner of what?\u201d He said \u201cDon\u2019t you feel it in your gut??\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe winner of life, guts, and glory.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWhat are you talking about?? It sounds gory.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cOne pole is the center of all things.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe other one gives you wings.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re talking way over my head.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cOne is life. The other one, you\u2019re dead.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m following what you said.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAll things end in death or life.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis will rate how you fought the fight.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cExactly how will it do that\u201d I muttered.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWhat? It\u2019s as plain as day\u201d he uttered.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis pole has a snake on top\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAll who look at it will live. It\u2019s the rock.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe other pole is just a big stake.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He said \u201cTo look at it is a mistake.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He stated \u201cLife is the race.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c At the end are the stakes\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cNow, does it make sense to you??\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I said \u201cYes, indeed it do.\u201d———R. W. Johnson—–(2015)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Two Poles He set up two tall poles, a distance apart. I said \u201cWhat is this? A new type of art??\u201d He said \u201cNo, this will rate the winner.\u201d \u201cExcuse me, did you say winter??\u201d \u201cNo, I said it will rate the winner.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t get it. The winner of what?\u201d He … Continue reading The Two Poles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-lessons","category-random","category-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}