{"id":2507,"date":"2006-03-19T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T02:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:26","slug":"california-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/19\/california-living\/","title":{"rendered":"California Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>California Living<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After supper I make amends,<br \/>\ntaking my body for a walk \u2013<br \/>\nfour miles marched, punctuated<br \/>\nby the blat-blat-blat of a Harley,<br \/>\nthe Doppler whoosh of small metal<br \/>\nworlds on wheels,<\/p>\n<p>bathed in a sodium yellow<br \/>\nstreetlight buzzing industrially<br \/>\nlike nothing heard in nature<br \/>\nthis din of light pierced by<br \/>\nthe ersatz bird chirp of a<br \/>\ncrosswalk signal,<\/p>\n<p>gazing up, I wink at the moon<br \/>\nundressed, full and flirting with<br \/>\nvoluptuous clouds, the air<br \/>\ninfused with cloying car fumes.<br \/>\nI pause at a yellow rose<br \/>\nfar from Texas, inhaling <\/p>\n<p>its spicysweet gift. It\u2019s not paradise,<br \/>\nthis city, but it will do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Living After supper I make amends, taking my body for a walk \u2013 four miles marched, punctuated by the blat-blat-blat of a Harley, the Doppler whoosh of small metal worlds on wheels, bathed in a sodium yellow streetlight buzzing industrially like nothing heard in nature this din of light pierced by the ersatz bird [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,28,16,215,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-humanities","category-nature","category-poetry","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","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=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10325,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/10325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}