{"id":102508,"date":"2020-10-11T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T07:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/?p=102508"},"modified":"2020-10-11T09:37:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T07:37:51","slug":"lifeblood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/?p=102508","title":{"rendered":"Lifeblood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My bead for the day was a red, round wooden bead. As I took it out of the jar I held it between my fingers and thought: blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought about the blood that runs through my veins, how it needs to oxygenate in order to be vital and support my body. And I thought, what do I need today to oxygenate myself, my soul? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the take aways from doing this bead practice over the years, is that it gives me a minute to listen to that small tiny whisper that can be heard from deep within. Some days a green bead will spark a picture of the leafy trees, and I know that a walk in the woods is what will save me that day. Other days when I see a red bead it can scream action, a blue can one day mean beach day and the next beg me to sit with my feelings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So today, you will find me in the garden. I will be planting roses and taking in the geraniums for their winter rest. It will be a day of getting grounded and filling up the reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johanna <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My bead for the day was a red, round wooden bead. As I took it out of the jar I held it between my fingers and thought: blood. I thought about the blood that runs through my veins, how it needs to oxygenate in order to be vital and support my body. And I thought, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-johannas-blog","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gardening-690940_1280.jpg","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102511,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102508\/revisions\/102511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}