{"id":79,"date":"2006-07-04T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T19:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2006-07-04T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T19:59:13","slug":"a-spell-for-the-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/04\/a-spell-for-the-fourth\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spell for the Fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Fourth of July to all my American readers! Earlier today, I watched the launching of the space shuttle Discovery while holding my miniature shuttle model and chanelling blessings and protection towards it and the astronauts inside.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I will be concentrating my energies on blessing and recharging the statue of the goddess Freedom on top of the US Capitol Building. Those of you familiar with my Spells for Democracy page and yahoo group will know that every year on the Fourth we work to make that gigantic talisman work to influence the representatives and senators working there to honor their oaths and to have the courage to stand up for freedom and the best of what America means.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neopagan.net\/graphics\/Freedom.gif\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A history of this effort can be found on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neopagan.net\/SpellsforDemocracy.html#Talisman\">Spells for Democracy<\/a> page. As it says there, I invite everyone to join us in this work to restore democracy and idealism to Washington DC.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I will be concentrating my energies on blessing and recharging the statue of the goddess Freedom on top of the US Capitol Building. <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/04\/a-spell-for-the-fourth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic","category-pagan-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}