{"id":2478,"date":"2007-11-14T18:11:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T01:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:38:45","slug":"surreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/11\/14\/surreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Surreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Surreal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the turn of the century<br \/>\nit is a long way down<br \/>\nto the mind&#8217;s I. A treehouse<br \/>\nchronicles my journey to this<br \/>\nlost continent, which requires<br \/>\nthe amber spyglass to navigate.<br \/>\nWhen I arrive I am barely a<br \/>\nshadow. There is<br \/>\nsnow falling on cedars; through<br \/>\nthe woods I hear the single hound<br \/>\nwailing for her hometown. After<br \/>\ntwenty years at Hull House, I<br \/>\nmourn for that bastard out of<br \/>\nCarolina who left her tender<br \/>\nat the bone. I wander through<br \/>\ntrees toward her cries and find<br \/>\nher. My journey ends across the<br \/>\nriver, past the canal town. Before<br \/>\ncrossing over, I ask her for<br \/>\ndirections. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; she<br \/>\nreplies. &#8220;I&#8217;m a stranger here myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Kathryn Harper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surreal At the turn of the century it is a long way down to the mind&#8217;s I. A treehouse chronicles my journey to this lost continent, which requires the amber spyglass to navigate. When I arrive I am barely a shadow. There is snow falling on cedars; through the woods I hear the single hound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,28,215],"tags":[251,61,233,229],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-humanities","category-poetry","tag-books","tag-life","tag-mystery","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","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=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10614,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/10614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}