{"id":151,"date":"2020-08-12T20:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T20:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/?p=151"},"modified":"2020-08-12T20:17:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T20:17:33","slug":"navajo-prayer-may-it-be-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Prayer &#8211; May it be  beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By&nbsp;<strong><em>Navajo (Anonymous)<\/em><\/strong><br>(19th Century)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dark young pine, at the center of the earth originating,<br>I have made your sacrifice.<br>Whiteshell, turquoise, abalone beautiful,<br>Jet beautiful, fool&#8217;s gold beautiful, blue pollen beautiful,<br>Red pollen, pollen beautiful, your sacrifice I have made.<br>This day your child I have become, I say.<br><br>Watch over me.<br>Hold your hand before me in protection.<br>Stand guard for me, speak in defense of me.<br>As I speak for you, speak for me.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; May it be beautiful before me.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; May it be beautiful behind me.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; May it be beautiful below me.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; May it be beautiful above me.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; May it be beautiful all around me.<br><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I am restored in beauty.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I am restored in beauty.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I am restored in beauty.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I am restored in beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English version by&nbsp;<em>Gladys A. Reichard<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Navajo (Anonymous)(19th Century) Dark young pine, at the center of the earth originating,I have made your sacrifice.Whiteshell, turquoise, abalone beautiful,Jet beautiful, fool&#8217;s gold beautiful, blue pollen beautiful,Red pollen, pollen beautiful, your sacrifice I have made.This day your child I have become, I say. Watch over me.Hold your hand before me in protection.Stand guard for me, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/?p=151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navajo Prayer &#8211; May it be  beautiful<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartlandspiritinc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}