{"id":2477,"date":"2006-12-07T18:10:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T01:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:56","slug":"on-the-way-to-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/12\/07\/on-the-way-to-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Way To The Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On The Way to the Library<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two oily crows play chicken with idling cars<br \/>\nat the traffic light. Inches<br \/>\nfrom a tire, the birds jackhammer<br \/>\ngray pavement for a smashed tidbit.<br \/>\nThis is their only task,<br \/>\nto eat six times<br \/>\none&#8217;s weight every day, even<br \/>\nif that meal sits on a four-lane<br \/>\nboulevard. One crow grabs<br \/>\na prize hunk and rises<br \/>\nwith helicopter wings, landing<br \/>\non the crosswalk light.<br \/>\nThe other pecks and pecks again,<br \/>\nunaware of the thrumming metal<br \/>\nbull looming next to it.<br \/>\nThe light changes. I drive past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On The Way to the Library Two oily crows play chicken with idling cars at the traffic light. Inches from a tire, the birds jackhammer gray pavement for a smashed tidbit. This is their only task, to eat six times one&#8217;s weight every day, even if that meal sits on a four-lane boulevard. One crow [&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-2477","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\/2477","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=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10355,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions\/10355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}