{"id":2471,"date":"2007-03-24T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:53","slug":"turf-war-with-a-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/03\/24\/turf-war-with-a-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Turf War With A Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Turf War With a Spider<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I drape against a picnic table, inhaling<br \/>\norange blossom perfume thick<br \/>\non the breeze. With pen poised,<br \/>\nmy hand starts scrawling when<br \/>\nin the corner of my sight<br \/>\nI catch perched on my elbow a small<br \/>\ntuxedo with eight legs.<\/p>\n<p>Jerking,<br \/>\nI shake her off; she lands on my knee.<br \/>\nI am Goliath. With a stamp of my foot<br \/>\nshe tumbles<br \/>\nto the concrete,<br \/>\nbanished.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later a presence pulls me<br \/>\nfrom my pen. I look down.<br \/>\nShe has crawled<br \/>\nhalfway up the table leg. One gust<br \/>\nof breath blows the leaf of her body<br \/>\nto the concrete, again.<\/p>\n<p>I return to my words, absorbed, only<br \/>\nto soon find my nemesis at the<br \/>\ntable edge. We stare,<br \/>\neyes to eyes. I&#8217;m a behemoth,<br \/>\nbut this David is relentless.<\/p>\n<p>Such determination in so small<br \/>\na creature deserves reward.<br \/>\nI move to another table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Kathryn Harper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turf War With a Spider I drape against a picnic table, inhaling orange blossom perfume thick on the breeze. With pen poised, my hand starts scrawling when in the corner of my sight I catch perched on my elbow a small tuxedo with eight legs. Jerking, I shake her off; she lands on my knee. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,28,16,215],"tags":[338,270,339,221,337,229],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-humanities","category-nature","category-poetry","tag-appreciation","tag-attention","tag-gratitutde","tag-nature","tag-persistence","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","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=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10618,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/10618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}