{"id":130309,"date":"2023-09-02T12:52:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130309"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:52:34","slug":"hour-four-handfasting-hand-tying-khis-tes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-four-handfasting-hand-tying-khis-tes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Four: Handfasting\/Hand Tying (Khis Tes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why do they scoff at Hmong Khis Tes:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130325 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1978205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hand Tying with white strings<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">at weddings and other celebrations<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">to hold a person\u2019s soul together<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">to shield them from evil spirits<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do they scoff because<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wiccans or Pagans did it<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Millennials ago:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tying hands together<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Binding two lives?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frontier America did it<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">America today does it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tie hands together<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Symbol for binding two lives,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">sacrificing persons for a pair?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or metaphor for getting caught<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">in a snare without escape?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this life together?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or damnation without separate lives?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contract for eternity?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or united until the knots fail?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or are they heart strings<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Binding two people in love<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">instead of knots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do they scoff at Hmong Khis Tes: Hand Tying with white strings at weddings and other celebrations to hold a person\u2019s soul together to shield them from evil spirits &nbsp; Do they scoff because Wiccans or Pagans did it Millennials ago: Tying hands together&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5922],"class_list":["post-130309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-dmarathon2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130365,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130309\/revisions\/130365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}