{"id":154,"date":"2012-02-12T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/?p=154"},"modified":"2015-03-22T17:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T21:55:17","slug":"four-jackals-chant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/2012\/02\/12\/four-jackals-chant\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Jackals Chant"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-154-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Four_Jackals.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Four_Jackals.mp3\">https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Four_Jackals.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><font size=+1>Four Jackals Chant<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=-2>&#169; 2012 Natalie Baan<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Jackal of the North, let loose the wind of freedom,<br \/>\nrefreshing our souls in a dry season.<\/p>\n<p>Jackal of the South, herald of Inundation,<br \/>\na drink of cool water in a dry season.<\/p>\n<p>Jackal of the East, You bring us inspiration,<br \/>\nshowing us the way in a dry season.<\/p>\n<p>Jackal of the West with ungents and fine linen,<br \/>\nrestore us to life in a dry season.<\/p>\n<p>Guardians of gates and places of transition,<br \/>\nliminal You walk at the borders of Creation,<br \/>\nwatching over us from every direction &#8212; <\/p>\n<p><i>Sabu! Wep! Wep! Wep!<\/i><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><font size=-2><i>Notes<\/i>: Written in February 2012. The howl at the end is probably entirely ungrammatical Kemetic: <i>sabu<\/i> means &#8220;jackals,&#8221; and <i>wep<\/i> is some form of the verb &#8220;to open.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Jackals Chant &#169; 2012 Natalie Baan Jackal of the North, let loose the wind of freedom, refreshing our souls in a dry season. Jackal of the South, herald of Inundation, a drink of cool water in a dry season. Jackal of the East, You bring us inspiration, showing us the way in a dry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jackals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}