{"id":2486,"date":"2006-07-24T19:38:30","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T02:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:43:14","slug":"damn-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/07\/24\/damn-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Damn Hot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The crepe myrtle weeps in the heat<br \/>\nI step out the door and wilt<br \/>\nlike a bunch of collard greens abandoned<br \/>\nat the farmer&#8217;s market. The wind&#8217;s<br \/>\nfingers press my skin, sticky as the tarmac.<br \/>\nI am a bacon ultimate cheeseburger,<br \/>\ndripping and overcooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn Hot The crepe myrtle weeps in the heat I step out the door and wilt like a bunch of collard greens abandoned at the farmer&#8217;s market. The wind&#8217;s fingers press my skin, sticky as the tarmac. I am a bacon ultimate cheeseburger, dripping and overcooked.<\/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-2486","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\/2486","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=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10348,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}