{"id":1254,"date":"2025-09-22T10:21:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:21:42","slug":"skadis-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"Skadi&#8217;s bow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Our gods are not always kind.<br>Our gods are not always<br>where we are.<br><br>Our gods are sunlight through<br>the trees at dawn, an ever-<br>present light<br>obscured<br>by<br>one leaf<br>or another,<br>fueled by an eternal<br>engine propelled by devotion.<br><br>To thank them is to turn them<br>into strangers who hold<br>open doors,<br>and<br>even if they<br>hold open doors,<br>they are never strangers.<br><br>Seek instead to spend wisely<br>their gifts and to look<br>them in the eyes,<br>not as equals<br>but<br>to<br>shed all<br>illusions as to<br>desire and sacrifice.<br><br>Be direct and so be directed,<br>shot like an arrow loosed<br>from Skadi's bow<br>stretched<br>across<br>the<br>morning sky,<br>without hesitation<br>or remorse, and<br>when the<br>leaves<br>fall<br>like<br>stars<br>you will hear<br>their whispered reply.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>September 22, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our gods are not always kind.Our gods are not alwayswhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=1254\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skadi&#8217;s bow<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49,2],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-49","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}