{"id":1998,"date":"2025-04-19T18:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/that-white-haired-celtic-woman-holding-the-dragon-in-the-banner-above\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T18:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T18:57:17","slug":"that-white-haired-celtic-woman-holding-the-dragon-in-the-banner-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/that-white-haired-celtic-woman-holding-the-dragon-in-the-banner-above\/","title":{"rendered":"That White-Haired Celtic Woman Holding the Dragon in the Banner Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I became fascinating with dragons, I somehow got the idea of how cool it would look having a real life picture of a Celtic woman in a blue medieval dress hugging a large, subdued giant dragon.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this as a reversal of the old legend of a princess imprisoned in a castle by an evil dragon that only a brave knight could save her from.<\/p>\n<p>I saw it as a dragon imprisoned by her magical love and magnetic compassion.<br>\nAnd I liked the idea of that.<\/p>\n<p>I feel there is probably more symbolism to that picture than I can imagine,<br>\nperhaps something like a liberating feminine symbol of a woman&#8217;s power.  <\/p>\n<p>Or maybe a deeper metaphysical meaning beyond my designing intention or comprehension.<\/p>\n<p>Whether a simple or profound meaning, I love how great and realistic that picture looks.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I became fascinating with dragons, I somehow got the idea of how cool it would look having a real life picture of a Celtic woman in a blue medieval dress hugging a large, subdued giant dragon. I saw this as a reversal of the old legend of a princess imprisoned in a castle by&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/that-white-haired-celtic-woman-holding-the-dragon-in-the-banner-above\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}