{"id":5333,"date":"2021-04-23T19:19:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T02:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/23-april-2021-1919\/"},"modified":"2021-04-23T19:19:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T02:19:27","slug":"23-april-2021-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/23-april-2021-1919\/","title":{"rendered":"23 April, 2021 19:19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leaf on the wind. Delicate and drifting, slipping back and forth across the path, flitting from one sight to another. The curiosity of the thing was a hypnotizing oddity.<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit watched the human child through the shifting lens of the Atherial Realms.<\/p>\n<p>Born from corporeal beings that had achieved transcendence, the Spirit had never desired to be a &quot;solid mass&quot; itself.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p>To see the candelight soul flickering and fluttering in its simple joy, followed by the steady presence of the caregiver, for the first time the Spirit <em>wanted<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And so, with a wish of being, the godling took form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leaf on the wind. Delicate and drifting, slipping back and forth across the path, flitting from one sight to another. The curiosity of the thing was a hypnotizing oddity. The Spirit watched the human child through the shifting lens of the Atherial Realms. Born from corporeal beings that had achieved transcendence, the Spirit had&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/23-april-2021-1919\/\" title=\"23 April, 2021 19:19\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">23 April, 2021 19:19<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1o1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4178,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/prompt-068\/","url_meta":{"origin":5333,"position":0},"title":"Prompt: 068. stuffed animal comes to life","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"March 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Prompt: 068. stuffed animal comes to life 1. 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