{"id":118,"date":"2003-10-27T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T23:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2003\/10\/27\/words-to-ponder-39\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:16:21","slug":"words-to-ponder-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2003\/10\/27\/words-to-ponder-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Words to Ponder #39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A double entry, for your reading pleasure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nShe read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Eudora Welty, &#8220;Listening,&#8221; <cite>One Writer&#8217;s Beginnings<\/cite> (1984)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhatever the theologians might say about Heaven being a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity &#8230; was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly forever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Dervla Murphy, <cite>Wheels Within Wheels<\/cite> (1979)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A double entry, for your reading pleasure. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him. &#8211;Eudora Welty, &#8220;Listening,&#8221; One Writer&#8217;s Beginnings (1984) Whatever the theologians might say about Heaven being a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity &#8230; was simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","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=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13199,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/13199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}