{"id":10546,"date":"2020-08-20T18:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T01:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10546"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:28:23","slug":"visiting-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2020\/08\/20\/visiting-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/28131432023\/in\/album-72157671103068452\/\" title=\"chief mountain\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8449\/28131432023_0917d1e88b_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"chief mountain\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><center>Chief Mountain, Montana<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visiting Mountains<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The plains ignore us,<br \/>\nbut these mountains listen,<br \/>\nan audience of thousands<br \/>\nholding its breath<br \/>\nin each rock. Climbing,<br \/>\nwe pick our way<br \/>\nover the skulls of small talk.<br \/>\nOn the prairies below us,<br \/>\nthe grass leans this way and that<br \/>\nin discussion;<br \/>\nwords fly away like corn shucks<br \/>\nover the fields.<br \/>\nHere, lost in a mountain\u2019s<br \/>\nattention, there\u2019s nothing to say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Ted Kooser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Mountain, Montana Visiting Mountains The plains ignore us, but these mountains listen, an audience of thousands holding its breath in each rock. Climbing, we pick our way over the skulls of small talk. On the prairies below us, the grass leans this way and that in discussion; words fly away like corn shucks over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,215,30],"tags":[304,320,229],"class_list":["post-10546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-poetry","category-quotes","tag-beauty","tag-mountains","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546","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=10546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10548,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions\/10548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}