{"id":66,"date":"2011-03-26T21:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T21:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shamanicart.com\/dev\/?p=66"},"modified":"2011-03-26T21:01:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T21:01:04","slug":"the-passion-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/2011\/03\/26\/the-passion-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passion Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75\" title=\"blue-flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/shamanicart.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/blue-flowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"632\" \/>While painting in my studio to the strains of Beethoven\u2019s music from the \u201cImmortal Beloved\u201d, I was suddenly struck by the power of the music as well as the subject matter which was this beautiful flower called the Passion Flower.  Suddenly, I experienced the synergy of the erotic, the beautiful and the cosmic. Combining these three sources is the basis of the state of grace. I felt like a momentary midwife to this energy and was in a state of awe and appreciation to have experienced this synergy firsthand.<\/p>\n<p><em>The message: Surrendering to one\u2019s inner passions gives one the opportunity to acquire the state of grace.  It is the process of putting passion into a form that is the pathway to this state.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While painting in my studio to the strains of Beethoven\u2019s music from the \u201cImmortal Beloved\u201d, I was suddenly struck by the power of the music as well as the subject matter which was this beautiful flower called the Passion Flower. Suddenly, I experienced the synergy of the erotic, the beautiful and the cosmic. Combining these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-large"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}