{"id":134,"date":"2011-04-15T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/15\/beltane-mead"},"modified":"2011-04-15T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:58:00","slug":"beltane-mead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/15\/beltane-mead\/","title":{"rendered":"Beltane Mead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I bottled last years Beltane mead, that it might have at least a little time to rest in the bottle before consumption.\u00a0 This is my first mead to make it a year (or nearly) from start to bottle, and also my first done explicitly as a religious and magical rite.\u00a0 It is, for the record, glorious.\u00a0 A simple honey mead (3 lb : 1 gal), but I can no longer recall the yeast I used.\u00a0 I think it was the Lavlin 1118, but I\u2019m not certain.\u00a0 Of course I can\u2019t bottle without tasting, and it is delicious.\u00a0 I have also used it to anoint a pair of idols that I am working with (slowly, cautiously \u2026 I\u2019m still new to that).<\/p>\n<p>Pasiphae, Aidan, Chirotus, and D were all there with Aradia and I at the creation.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how many of them will be making it back out for the consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The label, which I drew myself, is hidden behind the fold to avoid problems those few who might be viewing this post from work.\u00a0 It\u2019s an image of the horned god, folks, he\u2019s generally NSFW.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <a name='more'><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_TrsUO20TelM\/TaixW8YclqI\/AAAAAAAAACs\/dpQLLFM2ZUw\/s1600-h\/2010%20Horned%20God%27s%20Blessing%5B3%5D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2010 Horned God&#039;s Blessing\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2010 Horned God&#039;s Blessing\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_TrsUO20TelM\/TaixXmiRRbI\/AAAAAAAAACw\/h2dY_AXKTo0\/2010%20Horned%20God%27s%20Blessing_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"339\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I bottled last years Beltane mead, that it might have at least a little time to rest in the bottle before consumption.\u00a0 This is my first mead to make it a year (or nearly) from start to bottle, and also my first done explicitly as a religious and magical rite.\u00a0 It is, for &hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/15\/beltane-mead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[31,155],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-hedonism","category-witchcraft","tag-beltaine","tag-mead"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-2a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}