{"id":470,"date":"2025-10-17T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:10:44","slug":"warrior-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/warrior-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LAMENTATION OF A PSYCHIC WARRIOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a poem by Don Bothell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How many times has dread filled me; from early battles did I shy?<\/p>\n<p>Shame, soon realized, the most painful death.<\/p>\n<p>When did I square my stance \u2014 run over me \u2014<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t leave the field.<\/p>\n<p>Soul cast a warrior&#8230; warrior my caste.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over again. Broken body.<\/p>\n<p>Having stood once more in the light of the vision.<\/p>\n<p>Souls thrown from heaven:<\/p>\n<p>Some roll priest, some roll servant, some roll sage, some roll<\/p>\n<p>king.<\/p>\n<p>From the many lots \u2014 my way the warrior.<\/p>\n<p>Confrontation my teacher&#8230; teach again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve stood beside me and faced obliteration.<\/p>\n<p>Together we sing the song of sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>Taken the high ground and not been able to hold it.<\/p>\n<p>May the blade be swift, drawing this dream to an end.<\/p>\n<p>To awaken again, carrying the standard forward .<\/p>\n<p>Knowing no fear \u2014 our cause advancing<\/p>\n<p>Caste, warrior&#8230; love to defend!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1820\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/375431_422301401176347_982440894_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1820\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1820\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/375431_422301401176347_982440894_n.jpg\" alt=\"weight loss through yoga PYRRHIC WARRIOR\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/375431_422301401176347_982440894_n.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/375431_422301401176347_982440894_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/375431_422301401176347_982440894_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PYRRHIC WARRIOR<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a poem by Don Bothell &nbsp; How many times has dread filled me; from early battles did I shy? Shame, soon realized, the most painful death. When did I square my stance \u2014 run over me \u2014 I won&#8217;t leave the field. Soul cast a warrior&#8230; warrior my caste. &nbsp; Over again. Broken body. Having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}