{"id":1099,"date":"2005-09-11T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/09\/11\/room-to-play\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:25:39","slug":"room-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/09\/11\/room-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Room to Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><cite>Room to Play<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>It sits on the nightstand, a<br \/>spiral-bound stack of deadwood<br \/>no larger<br \/>than a cassette tape, clad<br \/>in magenta, <br \/>offering<br \/>one hundred and sixty invitations to<br \/>commune with myself.<\/p>\n<p>A black butterfly clip divides past<br \/>from present; faint blue lines <br \/>promise to <br \/>bring order out of chaos. <br \/>Paper bits,<br \/>notions<br \/>extracted from this moveable<br \/>brain, mingle with silver.<\/p>\n<p>But it is too small for secrets, it<br \/>can only contain the mundane; <br \/>the lines <br \/>too orderly, too rigid. Muse<br \/>needs galactic <br \/>space, <br \/>demands borderless playgrounds<br \/>to spill the soul&#8217;s blood.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Room to Play It sits on the nightstand, aspiral-bound stack of deadwoodno largerthan a cassette tape, cladin magenta, offeringone hundred and sixty invitations tocommune with myself. A black butterfly clip divides pastfrom present; faint blue lines promise to bring order out of chaos. Paper bits,notionsextracted from this moveablebrain, mingle with silver. But it is too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","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=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10924,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/10924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}