{"id":144,"date":"2010-11-07T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/07\/thought-of-the-day"},"modified":"2010-11-07T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T17:08:00","slug":"thought-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/07\/thought-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not posting much for two reasons: 1) I still haven\u2019t gotten back on that big magical bandwagon yet, though I\u2019m doing better; and, 2) it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\">National Novel Writing Month<\/a>.\u00a0 Because it\u2019s NaNoWriMo time, and because I just did the First Friday thing to celebrate my birthday with one of my oldest friends, I\u2019m in a certain headspace.\u00a0 Eris Hilton has <a href=\"http:\/\/erishilton.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/06\/places-spaces-poly-anna-theism\/#more-773\">recently<\/a> summed up that headspace well (though the rest of the post is actually unrelated):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Magic isn\u2019t rocket science \u2026<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rocket art.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, in the midst of my frenzied writing, I\u2019ve had a couple breakthroughs with key ideas on how to develop my own mystery tradition without relying any more than absolutely necessary with some of the more \u2026 problematic elements of neoPagan cultural appropriation.<\/p>\n<p>One word: Labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p>More on that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not posting much for two reasons: 1) I still haven\u2019t gotten back on that big magical bandwagon yet, though I\u2019m doing better; and, 2) it\u2019s National Novel Writing Month.\u00a0 Because it\u2019s NaNoWriMo time, and because I just did the First Friday thing to celebrate my birthday with one of my oldest friends, I\u2019m in &hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/07\/thought-of-the-day\/\" 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":[2,5],"tags":[21,292],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-witchcraft","tag-art-of-magic","tag-weblinks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-2k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}