{"id":37,"date":"2012-02-02T11:10:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2012-06-14T12:23:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T19:23:35","slug":"bless-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/bless-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bless the Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/vulture-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38\" title=\"Isis Queen of Heaven\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/vulture-crop-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"vulture drying her wings\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/vulture-crop-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/vulture-crop.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isis, Queen of Heaven                                        (photo credit: Chuck Fisher)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday I finally took care of something that came to me back in December. Among the sacred items of a friend of mine who died was a hawk leg\u2014the whole leg, with feathers, claw, and leather ties with beaded ends wrapped around it. When my Gaia circle sisters and I were finding homes for our friend&#8217;s sacreds, I agreed to take the hawk leg and figure out what to do with it. It&#8217;s not something any of us wanted to keep as a sacred. It came to me to return the hawk leg to the earth, and yesterday was the day. I untied the leather, restoring the leg to its natural state, and then carried it outside to bury it. Dust to dust. As soon as I stepped through the gate into the animal area, where the hawk would have sanctuary company, a hawk began calling overhead and kept calling the entire time I dug the hole, laid the leg in with thanks to the hawk spirit, covered it over, and placed a stone on top. Then the hawk ceased calling. Her sister or brother had come home, whole again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I finally took care of something that came to me back in December. Among the sacred items of a friend of mine who died was a hawk leg\u2014the whole leg, with feathers, claw, and leather ties with beaded ends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/02\/bless-the-birds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephaniemarohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}