{"id":1349,"date":"2006-01-14T01:17:52","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T09:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/01\/14\/again-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:45:10","slug":"again-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/01\/14\/again-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Again For the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have cherished this Eliot quote for a long time. Time to make a note of it. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What we call the beginning is often the end<br \/>And to make an end is to make a beginning.<br \/>The end is where we start from.<br \/>We shall not cease from exploration<br \/>And the end of all our exploring<br \/>Will be to arrive where we started<br \/>And know the place for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;T.S. Eliot<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire poem is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tristan.icom43.net\/quartets\/gidding.html\">Little Gidding<\/a>, number four of &#8220;Four Quartets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have cherished this Eliot quote for a long time. Time to make a note of it. What we call the beginning is often the endAnd to make an end is to make a beginning.The end is where we start from.We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12358,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/12358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}