{"id":2713,"date":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/mike-odonnell-the-water-man-from-paeroa\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T19:17:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:17:50","slug":"mike-odonnell-the-water-man-from-paeroa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/mike-odonnell-the-water-man-from-paeroa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike O'Donnell the Water Man from Paeroa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hear his greetings of goodwill and tears, how indigenous peoples respond to water that nourishes our living planet PapaTuanuku our sustainer.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Earth is in trouble, it is we humans who need healing. Our planet, though continually abused, sings us awake every morning by birdsong, and flowers opening.<\/p>\n<p>We are the water carriers, water vessels shaped as clay, and as man and woman, we need to come back together to coalesce in aroha.<\/p>\n<p>Mike has a local river called Tara ariki, passing by his house, this is his connection. Where once gold and silver miners polluted these arteries, Mike has been the river's advocate -- one man's journey to stand for the creeks, rivers and streams for 25 years, to clean up what are sacred waters.<\/p>\n<p>As an avid clay worker, he uses this medium to express his connection with Mother Earth and the beings that share this world.<\/p>\n<p>A passionate man calls to reconnect with the water and the song in our being -- and the water outside our being -- and become one with the great cycle of existence with family and community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to a heart felt story of connection with water and its sacredness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}