{"id":1896,"date":"2025-09-16T13:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:06:56","slug":"breath-be-my-healer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"Breath Be My Healer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Jill Bottum<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">When I was a little girl <br>and got badly hurt,<br>I would often pass out.<br>\u201cYou forget to breathe,\u201d<br>my mother would tell me.<br>Pain caused me <br>to swallow my breath. <br><br>Now, emotional pain<br>causes lapses <br>in my breath.<br>I must remember<br>to breathe<br>the fullness of life<br>back into my soul.<br><br>Let the breath of <br>my spirit<br>soothe my pain<br>until I can see<br>the way; <br>allow the healing<br>power of breath <br>to fill me <br>until I am whole<br>once more.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou forget to breathe,\u201d \/ my mother would tell me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sept-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}