{"id":2474,"date":"2007-03-03T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:04","slug":"the-lonely-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/03\/03\/the-lonely-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lonely Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Lonely Hours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The second hand on the clock marches,<br \/>\ndances a stiff two-step circle.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep flees, an unfaithful spouse,<br \/>\ncourts everyone else while I lie<br \/>\nstill as a corpse, pretending not to notice,<br \/>\nnot to care. The rest of the world<br \/>\nsinks into its embrace.<\/p>\n<p>My conscience sparkles like clean plate<br \/>\nglass. My body a race horse, ridden<br \/>\nhard and put up wet. If I were a rode<br \/>\ndoper, I&#8217;d be a recovered one,<br \/>\nstimulant free.<\/p>\n<p>God does not whisper to me.<br \/>\nI receive no visions.<br \/>\nI am simply awake, witness to the hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lonely Hours The second hand on the clock marches, dances a stiff two-step circle. Sleep flees, an unfaithful spouse, courts everyone else while I lie still as a corpse, pretending not to notice, not to care. The rest of the world sinks into its embrace. My conscience sparkles like clean plate glass. My body [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-humanities","category-nature","category-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","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=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10358,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions\/10358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}