{"id":770,"date":"2010-11-27T23:20:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T06:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/?p=770"},"modified":"2010-12-23T21:42:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T04:42:36","slug":"mother-and-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/mother-and-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother and Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bond between a mother &amp; son is deep &amp; irreplaceable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He grows in her womb,  alights in her embrace, &amp; delights in every glance &amp; word of  affection.  She is the queen of his heart.<\/p>\n<p>Yet society demands her away to a cubicle or nursing wing and he to a school, the first of many trespasses eroding sacred bonds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While apart, mother &amp; son never completely stop thinking about the other, for their very cells long for reunion.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, praise &amp;  affection gives way to institutionalized upbringing.  Yet he never  stops unknowingly craving his mother&#8217;s love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As puberty sets in, the difference between a young man fulfilled &amp; one unsaturated in his mother&#8217;s love could not be greater.<\/p>\n<p>With deficit he strives to &#8220;earn&#8221; the attention of his beloved to fill the void, never content to stop and &#8220;just be&#8221; in the assurance that his true love will find him on her own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Fulfilled, he knows who he is in her eyes, finds himself trustworthy &amp; therefore so too is the love that he finds in the world.<\/p>\n<p>May all mothers be  empowered to love their sons as much as they originally wished.  May all sons find  true love in the world without even seeking it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">May the blue lotus of my crown ever-widen in sweet heavenly scent, that the divine mother may be drawn near in delight.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">(Part II:#2)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bond between a mother &amp; son is deep &amp; irreplaceable. He grows in her womb, alights in her embrace, &amp; delights in every glance &amp; word of affection. She is the queen of his heart. Yet society demands her away to a cubicle or nursing wing and he to a school, the first of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/mother-and-son\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mother and Son<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tao-of-the-arisen-son"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucidtmedia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}