{"id":10066,"date":"2020-02-24T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T06:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:13:17","slug":"the-soul-reaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2020\/02\/24\/the-soul-reaching\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soul Reaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 A. Edward Newton<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4824259\/in\/photolist-n5U95q-f2hJUi-7rYF3P-hQdtw-5JfhBC-4UPJhU-4N1rrK-4z84jM-4zckAC-4xSvyP-4u6GQu-24DTTS-HF2Pb-HF2NW-HF2P3-HF2P1-hQdtv-f6eEJ-2q6yH-2q6Mj-2q6yK-qJ5T-aFBRS\" title=\"light on books\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5\/4824259_1a3ff5ba0b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"light on books\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity.&#8221; \u2013 A. Edward Newton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,27,219],"tags":[251,61,252,235],"class_list":["post-10066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humanities","category-recreation","category-spirit","tag-books","tag-life","tag-reading","tag-soul"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10478,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10066\/revisions\/10478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}