{"id":2475,"date":"2007-02-20T18:09:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T01:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:14","slug":"a-contemplation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/02\/20\/a-contemplation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Contemplation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Contemplation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My body is no longer my own. It contains a<br \/>\nsprout like a fiddlehead fern frond, curled<br \/>\ninward on itself.<\/p>\n<p>Microscopic cells multiply<br \/>\nwith fervor, their intention known only<br \/>\nto themselves.<\/p>\n<p>While I sleep, whether<br \/>\nI churn like a river or remain a placid lake,<br \/>\nthis body has<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s own mission: coming to summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Contemplation My body is no longer my own. It contains a sprout like a fiddlehead fern frond, curled inward on itself. Microscopic cells multiply with fervor, their intention known only to themselves. While I sleep, whether I churn like a river or remain a placid lake, this body has it&#8217;s own mission: coming to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,28,34,16,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-humanities","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","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=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10357,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/10357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}