{"id":75242849,"date":"2022-09-27T15:29:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=75242849"},"modified":"2022-09-27T15:29:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:29:01","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-turning-of-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=75242849","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Turning of Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A poem to mark the seasons of nature and life.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/d16d1d01-eb93-4f7d-9a90-5d9e5dcca497_3778x5666.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of two orange oak leaves taped to a window, with an overcast day behind it. A long-haired cat sits near the window in silhouette, with a chair in the forefront.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@purejulia?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">pure julia<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/falling-leaf?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Turning of Seasons<\/h3><p>Brighid of the Seasons,<\/p><p>as the days darken,<\/p><p>You nest in Your cottage.<\/p><p>Turn, turn<\/p><p>whirls Your spinning wheel,<\/p><p>twining wool as it does life.<\/p><p>Ancestress of the Cycles, guiding<\/p><p>strands into eternity<\/p><p>from earth to sea to sky.<\/p><p>Each night to each day,<\/p><p>every night to every day.<\/p><p>the seasons renew.<\/p><p>As the world changes,<\/p><p>so does the human heart,<\/p><p>like the falling oak leaf.<\/p><p>May my heart know<\/p><p>peace and rest,<\/p><p>like the drifting oak leaf.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem to mark the seasons of nature and life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75242849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75242849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75242849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75242849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75242849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75242849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75242849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}