{"id":2500,"date":"2006-04-01T19:51:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T03:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:10","slug":"at-bedside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/04\/01\/at-bedside\/","title":{"rendered":"At Bedside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At Bedside<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The leather diary, the abandoned crosswords,<br \/>\nthe clock aglow with red digits,<br \/>\ntarot decks nested together,<br \/>\nthe magazine pile, blue plastic earplugs,<br \/>\nscattered coins mingling by a dusty tissue box,<br \/>\none lone domino, a low-lit lamp, the<br \/>\nsmall spiral notebook with a black-capped pen,<br \/>\nlike admission tickets for an underworld ride<br \/>\nor runes rich with portent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nPoem #1 for NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Bedside The leather diary, the abandoned crosswords, the clock aglow with red digits, tarot decks nested together, the magazine pile, blue plastic earplugs, scattered coins mingling by a dusty tissue box, one lone domino, a low-lit lamp, the small spiral notebook with a black-capped pen, like admission tickets for an underworld ride or runes [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-humanities","category-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","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=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10334,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions\/10334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}