{"id":400,"date":"2012-05-14T01:04:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T01:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2012-05-15T03:05:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T03:05:11","slug":"may-week-2-we-have-a-beautiful-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"May Week 2 &#8211; We Have a Beautiful Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_401\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/May-2-StarEatsClam-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-401\" class=\" wp-image-401 \" title=\"May 2 StarEatsClam web\" src=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/May-2-StarEatsClam-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/May-2-StarEatsClam-web.jpg 500w, http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/May-2-StarEatsClam-web-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orche Star Eats Clam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am posting these images on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mothers Day.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 This day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s origin began in 1870 with Julia Ward Howe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call to women globally to unite and declare a day for protesting war and seeking ways of peace.\u00c2\u00a0 12 years after she wrote the lyrics of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, not a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153feminist theme song,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she was tired of war and killing and declared \u00e2\u20ac\u0153From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own, it says Disarm! Disarm!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>I offer you two images (photographed in the second week of May) from the body of mother earth: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tears on an Iris\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Star Eats Crab.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d On this Mothers Day we each remember our mother and all mothers we know, Mother Earth and the Eternal God\/dess Mother.\u00c2\u00a0 The words of Alice Walker enable us to do just that in her poem \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We Have A Beautiful Mother.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<address>We have a beautiful<\/address>\n<address>mother<\/address>\n<address>Her Hills<\/address>\n<dl id=\"attachment_402\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 348px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/May-2-IrisDetail-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-402\" title=\"May 2 -IrisDetail web\" src=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/May-2-IrisDetail-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/May-2-IrisDetail-web.jpg 338w, http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/May-2-IrisDetail-web-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<address>are buffaloes<\/address>\n<address>Her buffaloes<\/address>\n<address>hills.<\/address>\n<address>We have a beautiful<\/address>\n<address>mother<\/address>\n<address>Her oceans<\/address>\n<address>are wombs<\/address>\n<address>Her wombs<\/address>\n<address>oceans.<\/address>\n<address>We have a beautiful<\/address>\n<address>mother<\/address>\n<address>Her teeth<\/address>\n<address>the white stones at the edge<\/address>\n<address>of the water<\/address>\n<address>the summer grasses<\/address>\n<address>her plentiful<\/address>\n<address>hair.<\/address>\n<address>We have a beautiful<\/address>\n<address>mother<\/address>\n<address>Her green lap<\/address>\n<address>immense<\/address>\n<address>Her brown embrace<\/address>\n<address>eternal<\/address>\n<address>Her blue body<\/address>\n<address>everything<\/address>\n<address>we know.<\/address>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_402\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 348px;\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Shallow depth-of-filed used to select focus on water (f\/2.8\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; 100mm\u00c2\u00a0 macro lens, diffused light, reflector)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am posting these images on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mothers Day.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 This day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s origin began in 1870 with Julia Ward Howe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call to women globally to unite and declare a day for protesting war and seeking ways of peace.\u00c2\u00a0 12 years after she &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hkEw-6s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}