{"id":329,"date":"2011-04-28T02:41:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T02:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shamanicart.com\/dev\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-04-28T02:41:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T02:41:16","slug":"ancestral-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/2011\/04\/28\/ancestral-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I call them my Star Committee<br \/>\nAncestral souls who, for reasons of age or temperament<br \/>\nFlew to other side of darkness before me.<\/p>\n<p>Some went suddenly, some went slowly<br \/>\nSome went without warning, others not<br \/>\nAll went willingly and with purpose<\/p>\n<p>I want to honor them, legacies living still<br \/>\nOur soul web is still strong<br \/>\nThey whisper, yell and cajole<br \/>\nNighttime is busy in their court<\/p>\n<p>Stand up, they say, you are now the front-runner<br \/>\nYou, and the others we are guiding<br \/>\nI say yes to them, I thank them for their patience<\/p>\n<p>I hurry to their gardens, nurturing what is left<br \/>\nof the plan we had, praying that I can hear them well.<\/p>\n<p>To put my sorrow at their leaving<br \/>\nIn their nurturing laps sometimes crosses my mind<br \/>\nBut they say no, use it for the dream we dreamed<br \/>\ntogether before time started<br \/>\nYou are old enough and kind enough now.<\/p>\n<p>&copy; CARMELLA WEINTRAUB, 1998<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I call them my Star Committee Ancestral souls who, for reasons of age or temperament Flew to other side of darkness before me. Some went suddenly, some went slowly Some went without warning, others not All went willingly and with purpose I want to honor them, legacies living still Our soul web is still strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}