{"id":18,"date":"2008-06-12T13:39:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T11:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/?p=18"},"modified":"2013-07-22T19:45:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T17:45:25","slug":"mother-earth-is-a-gnome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/mother-earth-is-a-gnome","title":{"rendered":"Mother Earth is a gnome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dorje was sharing a song with me last night.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s sang this song for quite a while, and until last night, I thought the words were:<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nAre you sleeping<br \/>\nAre you sleeping<br \/>\nBoys and girls<br \/>\nBoys and girls<br \/>\nMother&#8217;s going to keep you<br \/>\nMother&#8217;s going to keep you<br \/>\nWarm and safe<br \/>\nWarm and safe<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last night I realised the words were actually:<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nAre you sleeping<br \/>\nAre you sleeping<br \/>\nBoys and girls<br \/>\nBoys and girls<br \/>\nMother Earth will keep you<br \/>\nMother Earth will keep you<br \/>\nWarm and safe<br \/>\nWarm and safe<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Excited by this new discovery, and ready to launch into a discussion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaia_hypothesis\">Gaia hypothesis<\/a>, or a discussion of various forms of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mother_Goddess\">mother goddess<\/a>, I asked Dorje if he knew what Mother Earth was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes&#8221;, he said, &#8220;it&#8217;s a gnomie that lives under the ground&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorje was sharing a song with me last night. He&#8217;s sang this song for quite a while, and until last night, I thought the words were: Are you sleeping Are you sleeping Boys and girls Boys and girls Mother&#8217;s going to keep you Mother&#8217;s going to keep you Warm and safe Warm and safe Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}