{"id":10118,"date":"2020-03-25T16:19:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T23:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10118"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:13:17","slug":"pandemic-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2020\/03\/25\/pandemic-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In memory of Mary Catherine Nicklas Petro<br \/>\n10\/6\/1933 &#8211; 3\/16\/2020<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/49698472598\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"mom garden 1966\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49698472598_ac073abc41_w.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"400\" alt=\"mom garden 1966\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong>Pandemic Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are not all left standing when the war has ended.<br \/>\nIt feels like the end times.<br \/>\nFor many, it is.<br \/>\nInhalation is our first act of embodiment.<br \/>\nExhalation, our last.<br \/>\nOne lifetime, millions of breaths<br \/>\na conversation with all existence.<br \/>\nWhere does the spirit go when we die?<br \/>\nHail Mary, my gentle Momma,<br \/>\nYou left; you gave up your breath<br \/>\nbefore the virus could steal it.<br \/>\nYou waged a long campaign to stave off<br \/>\ncancer, old age, and death.<br \/>\nEmancipating your breath<br \/>\nyou added the gift of your spirit to all.<br \/>\nHoly Mary, you released your body,<br \/>\nreturned to Earth, our suffocating Mother,<br \/>\nin respiratory distress for decades.<br \/>\nHumanity is a virus choking<br \/>\nand drowning our source of life.<br \/>\nWhen the host dies,<br \/>\nthe virus dies too.<br \/>\nMomma, you returned to our Mother<br \/>\nso you could garden with Her,<br \/>\nto try to heal us all. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Kathryn Harper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In memory of Mary Catherine Nicklas Petro 10\/6\/1933 &#8211; 3\/16\/2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,24,34,16,219],"tags":[140,237,69,152,141,236,229,232],"class_list":["post-10118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-arts","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-spirit","tag-death","tag-earth","tag-grief","tag-love","tag-mother","tag-pandemic","tag-poetry","tag-spirit"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118","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=10118"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10585,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions\/10585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}