{"id":51791,"date":"2025-06-22T06:49:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=51791"},"modified":"2025-06-22T07:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T12:18:05","slug":"immortal-greek-goddesses-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=51791","title":{"rendered":"Immortal Greek Goddesses (part IV)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hera has been so kind and accommodating as the\u00a0WLBOTT\u00a0<\/strong>team documents her community\u2019s struggles in the west Texas town of\u00a0La Mesa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snapshots of Daily Life<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A Walk in the Park<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A beautiful morning as goddess Rhea<\/a><\/strong> heads over to the Dog [God spelled backwards] Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making Ends Meet<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As the La Mesa Temple<\/strong> revenues dwindle[1]<\/sup>, a few of our goddesses were able to find employment at the local Whataburger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/sup> The La Mesa Omphalos<\/strong>

Omphalos <\/strong>means \u201cnavel\u201d or center of the world in ancient Greek. This declares that La Mesa is the spiritual navel of the mythic cosmos, which we already knew. We will cover the temple revitalization in a future Blott.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nothing beats the feeling when your shift is finally over. Time to cruse downtown La Mesa!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saturn-Day Night<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Time to head over to the La Mesa Dairy Queen[2]<\/sup> for Slam Poetry<\/em><\/strong> night. The goddesses look forward to this all week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The goddesses go thru a lot<\/em> of olives. But one of the younger goddesses mistakenly bought a gallon jar of Jalape\u00f1o-stuffed olives. Too spicy for Hera! Let’s accompany them as they try to return the olives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The younger goddesses just weren’t taken seriously by the patriarchal staff. Have they learned nothing in 2,000 years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time to send in senior management. Hera and her team tolerated no nonsense from the mortals. Olive harmony was restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[2]<\/sup> The La Mesa Dairy Queen<\/strong> is located at
          512 N 4th St
          Lamesa, TX 79331-4504<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hera has been so kind and accommodating as the\u00a0WLBOTT\u00a0team documents her community\u2019s struggles in the west Texas town of\u00a0La Mesa. Snapshots of Daily Life A Walk in the Park A beautiful morning as goddess Rhea heads over to the Dog [God spelled backwards] Park. Making Ends Meet As the La Mesa Temple revenues dwindle[1], 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":"","_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":[14,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curated-absurdity","category-gods-goddesses-and-mythical-heros"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51846,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791\/revisions\/51846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}