{"id":1458,"date":"2006-03-22T19:19:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T03:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/22\/food\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:18","slug":"food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/22\/food\/","title":{"rendered":"Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Food<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want mother&#8217;s milk,<br \/>\nthat good sour soup.<br \/>\nI want breasts singing like eggplants,<br \/>\nand a mouth above making kisses.<br \/>\nI want nipples like shy strawberries<br \/>\nfor I need to suck the sky.<br \/>\nI need to bite also<br \/>\nas in a carrot stick.<br \/>\nI need arms that rock,<br \/>\ntwo clean clam shells singing <em>ocean<\/em>.<br \/>\nFurther I need weeds to eat<br \/>\nfor they are the spinach of the soul.<br \/>\nI am hungry and you give me<br \/>\na dictionary to decipher.<br \/>\nI am a baby all wrapped up in its red howl<br \/>\nand you pour salt into my mouth.<br \/>\nYour nipples are stitched up like sutures<br \/>\nand although I suck<br \/>\nI suck air<br \/>\nand even the big fat sugar moves away.<br \/>\nTell me! Tell me! Why is it?<br \/>\nI need food<br \/>\nand you walk away reading the paper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Anne Sexton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food I want mother&#8217;s milk, that good sour soup. I want breasts singing like eggplants, and a mouth above making kisses. I want nipples like shy strawberries for I need to suck the sky. I need to bite also as in a carrot stick. I need arms that rock, two clean clam shells singing ocean. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","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=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12312,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/12312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}