{"id":264,"date":"2009-02-15T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T16:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=264"},"modified":"2012-05-24T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T15:28:40","slug":"water-and-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/prayers\/water-and-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Water and Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If nothing else, it must be noted. This is what I am.<\/p>\n<p><i>i am going to<br \/>\npour myself into the earth,<br \/>\ncoiling between roots<br \/>\nand rocks<br \/>\nuntil my belly meets<br \/>\nthe spine of some underground lake;<br \/>\ni will fall into it,<br \/>\nlike air into the lungs<br \/>\nlike blood into the heart<br \/>\nlike light into the eyes<br \/>\nand breathe the essence<br \/>\nof depth and chill,<br \/>\nof darkness and fluidity,<br \/>\nand remember what it is that i am<br \/>\nand where i came from.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I danced through shapes towards ecstasy, the room eerie in a blue glow and electrance music filling the air. I remembered\/rediscovered how my body can move, as a human, as a snake, as a beast, as a creature that is all of these and nothing in particular.<\/p>\n<p>I will do this again, and celebrate my skins, and find joy in my body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If nothing else, it must be noted. This is what I am. i am going to pour myself into the earth, coiling between roots and rocks until my belly meets the spine of some underground lake; i will fall into it, like air into the lungs like blood into the heart like light into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}