{"id":5553,"date":"2011-08-01T01:10:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T06:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=5690"},"modified":"2011-07-20T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T18:48:54","slug":"given-to-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2011\/08\/01\/given-to-the-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Given to the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>given to the Gods, she waits<br \/>\nthe fear inside a slow flame,<br \/>\nburning her resolve.<br \/>\nand then, suddenly, they are here<br \/>\nthe Grandmothers, old as Time,<br \/>\nmarking her face, ochre-striped,<br \/>\nhanging about her neck the sacred band<br \/>\nof amber, teeth and gold.<br \/>\nthey light the bowl of herbs<br \/>\nand smoke, soft as silk, courses through the hut<br \/>\nfilling her head with dreams<br \/>\nrising, she walks towards the setting sun,<br \/>\npainted in blood-light,<br \/>\nmessenger of her people.<br \/>\nan arrow, sent to the Gods.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>given to the Gods, she waits the fear inside a slow flame, burning her resolve. and then, suddenly, they are here the Grandmothers, old as Time, marking her face, ochre-striped, hanging about her neck the sacred band of amber, teeth and gold. they light the bowl of herbs and smoke, soft as silk, courses through the hut filling her head with dreams rising, she walks towards the setting sun, painted in blood-light, messenger of her people. an arrow, sent to the Gods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}