{"id":648,"date":"2020-07-11T13:59:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5679.temp.domains\/~joeayres\/?p=648"},"modified":"2020-07-11T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T14:00:21","slug":"hawthorn-huath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeayrescares.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorn (Huath)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">The Hawthorn (Huath to the Celts) with its beautiful white spring blossoms and unpleasant smell is a study in contrast. It has beautiful blossoms and seems delicate from a distance, but anyone trying to pass through a Hawthorn thicket knows its thorns are far from delicate. The Celts used the Hawthorn for medicinal purposes but also felt it was a bad omen to bring the plant indoors (some say the blossoms smell like decaying flesh). Thus, the bush is a symbol of duality (life\/death).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Ireland, it is considered to be a Fairy Tree and thought to be very bad luck to cut one down. They even reroute highways to avoid disturbing a Fairy Tree!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Ogham writing the Hawthorn (Huath) translates as the letter &#8220;H&#8221;. &nbsp;The Ogham symbol for Huath is in the accompanying illustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5679.temp.domains\/~joeayres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/imgres-1.jpg?resize=225%2C225\" alt=\"Description: Macintosh HD:Users:wanderingangus:Desktop:huath_.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/joeayrescares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/imgres-1.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/joeayrescares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/imgres-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/joeayrescares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/imgres-1.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hawthorn (Huath to the Celts) with its beautiful white spring blossoms and unpleasant smell is a study in contrast. It has beautiful blossoms and seems delicate from a distance, but anyone trying to pass through a Hawthorn thicket knows its thorns are far from delicate. The Celts used the Hawthorn for medicinal purposes but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,221,199],"tags":[208,201,209,217],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celtic-general","category-hawthorn-huath","category-ogham-script-trees","tag-ogham-alphebet","tag-ogham-script","tag-ogham-symbols","tag-ogham-trees","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam4uk-as","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeayrescares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeayrescares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeayrescares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeayrescares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeayrescares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joeayrescares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/joeayrescares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeayrescares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeayrescares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeayrescares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}