{"id":1964,"date":"2007-06-17T13:42:21","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T20:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/06\/17\/ripening-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:13","slug":"ripening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/06\/17\/ripening-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A watermelon appears inert, settled on the soil basking in the sun. Even when small its future density transmits. Were you to watch it daily, you would be fooled into thinking nothing was happening.<\/p>\n<p>But as it absorbs the heat of the sun, so does it suck water from the soil through its roots and vines. Hundreds of thousands of cells multiply, expanding the architecture of the thick rind and tender red flesh. The energy of the stars works within. It lies there, growing enormous, its heavy bulk indenting the soil. It is not graceful. If it had limbs, it would lumber and wobble, traipse clumsily along. <\/p>\n<p>It does not complain about its condition. It simply exists as its nature. Ripening. Waiting. Waiting like a debutante for its presentation. Its purpose fulfilled when its inner gift is offered and accepted with thirsty gratitude. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A watermelon appears inert, settled on the soil basking in the sun. Even when small its future density transmits. Were you to watch it daily, you would be fooled into thinking nothing was happening. But as it absorbs the heat of the sun, so does it suck water from the soil through its roots and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","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=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11289,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/11289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}