{"id":2415,"date":"2011-07-04T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T12:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2011-07-04T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T12:38:38","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thought for the day, with love and thanks to Mutsuko Johnson<strong><\/p>\n<p>Four Corners<\/strong><br \/>\n(Native American Indian text)<\/p>\n<p>To the winds of the South.<br \/>\nGreat Serpent.<br \/>\nWrap your coins of light around us.<br \/>\nTeach us to shed the past the way you shed your skin.<br \/>\nTo walk softly on the Earth. Teach us the beauty way.<\/p>\n<p>To the winds of the West.<br \/>\nMother\/Sister Jaguar.<br \/>\nProtect our medicine space.<br \/>\nTeach us the way of peace. To live impeccably.<br \/>\nShow us the way beyond death.<\/p>\n<p>To the winds of the North.<br \/>\nHummingbird, Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Ancient Ones.<br \/>\nCome and whisper to us in the wind.<br \/>\nWe honor you who have come before us.<br \/>\nAnd you who will come after us, our children\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<p>To the winds of the East.<br \/>\nGreat Eagle\/Condor.<br \/>\nCome to us from the place of the rising Sun.<br \/>\nKeep us under your wing.<br \/>\nShow us the mountains we only dare to dream of.<br \/>\nTeach us to fly wing to wing with Great Spirit.<br \/>\nAnd to see from the highest perspective, through the eyes of the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Earth.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve Gathered for the healing of all your children.<br \/>\nThe Stone People, the Plant people.<br \/>\nThe Four-Legged, the two\u2013legged, the creepy crawlers.<br \/>\nWe offer prayers for you and ALL our relations.<br \/>\nHoliest of holiest, Source, Creator of all that is.<br \/>\nFather Sun, Grandmother Moon, Star Nations.<br \/>\nGreat Spirit. You are who are known by a thousand names.<br \/>\nAnd you who are the unnameable One.<br \/>\nThank you for allowing us to sing the song of life yet one more day.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day.<\/p>\n<p>Love, Peace and Joy.<br \/>\nMutsuko Johnson<\/p>\n<p>(The Four corners: where 4 states meet: Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought for the day, with love and thanks to Mutsuko Johnson Four Corners (Native American&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[359,17],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings","tag-four-corners","tag-mutsuko-johnson","comments-open","no-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}