{"id":130,"date":"2012-03-26T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=130"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:14:38","slug":"a-prayer-to-bast-my-very-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/prayers\/a-prayer-to-bast-my-very-first\/","title":{"rendered":"a prayer to Bast (my very first)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>long form<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hail Bast, Lady of the East,<br \/>\nInvisible Paw, Giving All Life.<\/p>\n<p>May I hold infinite patience within my head<br \/>\nand endless compassion within my heart<br \/>\nas I live alongside Your children,<br \/>\nwho are not the least of what is Yours,<br \/>\nthough they are the smallest.<\/p>\n<p>May I slow down.<br \/>\nMay I remember to breathe.<br \/>\nMay I treasure each moment,<br \/>\neach touch of fur,<br \/>\neach eager purr,<br \/>\neach sleeping face.<\/p>\n<p>May I always know that it is I<br \/>\nwho must hold the space<br \/>\nand provide the structure<br \/>\nthat allows them to thrive.<br \/>\nMay I always act mindfully<br \/>\nand with gentleness.<\/p>\n<p>May I remember my heart-held duty<br \/>\nas caretaker, as caregiver,<br \/>\nto these who are part of my family,<br \/>\nand may I treat them with the same grace and love<br \/>\nwith which You treat Your children,<br \/>\nhuman and feline alike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>short form<\/i><\/p>\n<p>May I love my cats as Bast loves Her children.<br \/>\nMay I care for my cats as Bast cares for Her children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>long form Hail Bast, Lady of the East, Invisible Paw, Giving All Life. May I hold infinite patience within my head and endless compassion within my heart as I live alongside Your children, who are not the least of what is Yours, though they are the smallest. May I slow down. May I remember to [&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":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}