{"id":2492,"date":"2006-04-08T19:43:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T02:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:02","slug":"rains-unceasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/04\/08\/rains-unceasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rains Unceasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rains Unceasing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rains unceasing fatten<br \/>\nstreams into rivers, choke<br \/>\nthe planted fields. Satiated<br \/>\nearth burps a sinkhole on<br \/>\nHighway One at Devil\u2019s<br \/>\nSlide. City streets become<br \/>\nquickwater, and black<br \/>\numbrellas weave over the<br \/>\nsidewalks like vesper bats<br \/>\nveering toward home.<br \/>\nPanhandlers carry their<br \/>\nsoggy lives in shopping<br \/>\ncarts; even the homeless<br \/>\ncling to commodity. In<br \/>\nbroad gray daylight a<br \/>\nman pisses on an<br \/>\noverpass pillar, heedless<br \/>\nof those stoics waiting at<br \/>\nthe corner for the next bus. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nPoem #8 for NaPoWriMo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rains Unceasing The rains unceasing fatten streams into rivers, choke the planted fields. Satiated earth burps a sinkhole on Highway One at Devil\u2019s Slide. City streets become quickwater, and black umbrellas weave over the sidewalks like vesper bats veering toward home. Panhandlers carry their soggy lives in shopping carts; even the homeless cling to commodity. [&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-2492","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\/2492","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=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10343,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions\/10343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}