{"id":9448,"date":"2014-02-01T01:10:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T06:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=9765"},"modified":"2014-02-01T14:23:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T19:23:27","slug":"musings-of-a-hereditary-witch-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2014\/02\/01\/musings-of-a-hereditary-witch-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings of a Massachusetts Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Perpetual Flame<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Born yellow, orange and red I was<\/p>\n<p>to this wooden limb<\/p>\n<p>to this oak dweller<\/p>\n<p>but in the sacred grove, wise as a tree,<\/p>\n<p>silently walks our caretaker,<\/p>\n<p>tending her duty<\/p>\n<p>though between solstice and equinox, fall it now<\/p>\n<p>was birthed in times of long ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now my entire intention\u2019s to purify<\/p>\n<p>Kildare\u2019s sentient beings worth protecting<\/p>\n<p>from pestilence, vermin, and imps<\/p>\n<p>that no individual petition<\/p>\n<p>would overcome<\/p>\n<p>clever maliciousness manifested in darkness, each attack<\/p>\n<p>unmade, undone \u2013 swathed in my embrace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wise one, revered Lady<\/p>\n<p>of Imbolc we offer bannock and drink;<\/p>\n<p>showered by your kindness<\/p>\n<p>we raise goblets abundantly flowing with ewe\u2019s milk:<\/p>\n<p>Sweet sister, stay<\/p>\n<p>not of weariness or hunger, but linger<\/p>\n<p>lay in this bed; bless us, bless us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perpetual Flame &nbsp; Born yellow, orange and red I was to this wooden limb to this oak dweller but in the sacred grove, wise as a tree, silently walks our caretaker, tending her duty though between solstice and equinox, fall it now was birthed in times of long ago. &nbsp; Now my entire intention\u2019s to purify Kildare\u2019s sentient beings worth protecting from pestilence, vermin, and imps that no individual petition would overcome clever maliciousness manifested in darkness, each attack unmade, undone \u2013 swathed in my embrace. &nbsp; Wise one, revered Lady of Imbolc we offer bannock and drink; showered by your kindness we raise goblets abundantly flowing with ewe\u2019s milk: Sweet sister, stay not of weariness or hunger, but linger lay in this bed; bless us, bless us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"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-9448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}