{"id":2041,"date":"2022-02-02T17:45:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T01:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2022-02-02T17:45:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T01:45:41","slug":"the-year-of-the-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"The Year of the Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Lunar New Year!<br><br>Welcome to the year of the tiger. \u00a0Tigers are supposed to represent\u00a0power, courage, confidence, leadership and strength. \u00a0To the Chinese, the tiger is the king of the beasts. \u00a0And tiger&#8217;s have a special ability to banish evil.<br><br>Maybe those qualities are something you would like to invite into your life this coming year.<br><br>The Chinese cycle of years includes twelve animals and five elements: \u00a0wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. \u00a0This is a water year. \u00a0For me, water has the qualities of calm, overcoming obstacles, persistence. \u00a0So putting the two together a &#8220;water tiger&#8221; year might be a year of gentle strength, quiet bravery, slow change, a year to get\u00a0things done but gradually, with patience grounded in faith.<br><br>The two cycles of animals and elements combine for a long cycle of 60 years, so the last time we had a water tiger year was 1962. \u00a0That&#8217;s the year I was born. \u00a0I&#8217;m a water tiger. \u00a0This is my year.<br><br>Maybe this can be your year, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Lunar New Year! Welcome to the year of the tiger. \u00a0Tigers are supposed to represent\u00a0power, courage, confidence, leadership and&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=2041\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Year of the Tiger<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-fellowship","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}