{"id":1664,"date":"2006-10-05T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T18:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/10\/05\/hibernation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:35","slug":"hibernation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/10\/05\/hibernation\/","title":{"rendered":"Hibernation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I wait, then cease to wait. Earth rolls repeatedly through day and night. Layer of time. The frost binds. Then snow, that friendly meteor. Kindly mantle of infant vegetation. Insulating all of us who cling to the soil. Who have not got too upright, too far from the native horizontal. Earth beneath me throbs with warmth. Cold black sky presses down. Current of memory tugs at me. A long, long descent into perfect absence. I remember only where I am going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Verlyn Klinkenborg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Timothy-Abject-Reptile-Verlyn-Klinkenborg\/dp\/0679407286\/ref=sr_11_1\/002-1346481-7296031?ie=UTF8\">Timothy, or, Notes of an Abject Reptile<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wait, then cease to wait. Earth rolls repeatedly through day and night. Layer of time. The frost binds. Then snow, that friendly meteor. Kindly mantle of infant vegetation. Insulating all of us who cling to the soil. Who have not got too upright, too far from the native horizontal. Earth beneath me throbs with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","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=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12237,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/12237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}