{"id":1412,"date":"2006-02-25T21:47:06","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T05:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/02\/25\/a-first-draft\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:44","slug":"a-first-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/02\/25\/a-first-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"A First Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><cite>California Living<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>After supper I make amends to<br \/>my body, taking it for a walk &#8212;<br \/>four miles marched, punctuated<br \/>by the blat-blat-blat of a Harley,<br \/>the Doppler whoosh of small metal<br \/>worlds on wheels<\/p>\n<p>I am bathed in a sodium yellow<br \/>streetlight buzzing industrially<br \/>like nothing heard in nature<br \/>this din of light pierced by<br \/>the ersatz bird chirp of a<br \/>crosswalk signal<\/p>\n<p>Gazing up, I wink at the moon<br \/>undressed, full and flirting with<br \/>voluptuous clouds, the air<br \/>infused with cloying car fumes<br \/>and I pause at a yellow rose<br \/>far from Texas, inhaling (yes, I inhale)<\/p>\n<p>its spicysweet gift. It&#8217;s not paradise,<br \/>this city, but I am alive, and it will do.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Living After supper I make amends tomy body, taking it for a walk &#8212;four miles marched, punctuatedby the blat-blat-blat of a Harley,the Doppler whoosh of small metalworlds on wheels I am bathed in a sodium yellowstreetlight buzzing industriallylike nothing heard in naturethis din of light pierced bythe ersatz bird chirp of acrosswalk signal Gazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,29,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities","category-nature","category-regional","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","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=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11032,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/11032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}