{"id":160,"date":"2010-06-14T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/14\/motivations"},"modified":"2010-06-14T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T01:42:00","slug":"motivations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/14\/motivations\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/p>\n<p>Penczak&#8217;s<span style='text-decoration:underline;'> Outer Temple<\/span> asks that we consider our motivations for practicing witchcraft &#8211; the magic in particular.  I have been practicing magic since I was sixteen years old.  I have been studying it even longer.  My earliest days as a Seeker are vague, at best.  But sitting down and thinking about it, I can remember my first inspiration: the spark that got the fire going.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was<span style='text-decoration:underline;'> Bedknobs and Broomsticks<\/span>.  I was ten, maybe twelve, when I first saw the Disney movie.  I was still trying to find portals to Narnia in closets and odd openings in the house I grew up in.  And although I understood that it was fiction \u2026 the bit with the enchanted beds seemed plausible to me.  Or, it must have, because I remember clearly trying the spell to enchant my own bed.  When it didn&#8217;t work, I assumed that the movie had gotten it wrong and went to read the book the movie was based on.  The book didn&#8217;t actually contain the details of the spell, or any spell &#8211; it was deviously vague! &#8211; so I had to find other sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penczak&#8217;s Outer Temple asks that we consider our motivations for practicing witchcraft &#8211; the magic in particular. I have been practicing magic since I was sixteen years old. I have been studying it even longer. My earliest days as a Seeker are vague, at best. But sitting down and thinking about it, I can remember &hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/14\/motivations\/\" 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":[5],"tags":[134,258],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft","tag-keeping-score","tag-stories"],"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\/160","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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}