{"id":1298,"date":"2013-08-28T17:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2013-08-28T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:15:17","slug":"simplicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/misc\/simplicity\/","title":{"rendered":"simplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stepped into the room, exhausted, and looked at my shrine. I had neither the energy nor the focus to perform even my bare-bones daily rite, not after a full day of work, three hours of a root canal, and an evening of thoroughly cleaning in preparation for a house inspection the following morning.<\/p>\n<p>I dug out three tealights: one red, one cream-colored, and one pumpkin-y. I set them on the offering plate and lit them.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t say any fancy words or even wash my hands to purify. I simply thanked Sekhmet and Serqet, Who helped me through the dental work, and Ma&#8217;ahes, Who comforted me when I was afraid and in pain.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, it really is as simple as a candle, a whispered word of gratitude, and a feeling of relief for having made it through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stepped into the room, exhausted, and looked at my shrine. I had neither the energy nor the focus to perform even my bare-bones daily rite, not after a full day of work, three hours of a root canal, and an evening of thoroughly cleaning in preparation for a house inspection the following morning. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17,35,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}