{"id":2509,"date":"2006-03-17T19:58:25","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T02:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:26","slug":"room-to-play-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/17\/room-to-play-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Room To Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Room to Play<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It sits on the nightstand, a<br \/>\nspiral-bound stack of deadwood<br \/>\nno larger<br \/>\nthan a cassette tape, clad<br \/>\nin magenta,<br \/>\noffering<br \/>\none hundred and sixty invitations to<br \/>\ncommune with myself.<\/p>\n<p>A black butterfly clip divides past<br \/>\nfrom present; faint blue lines<br \/>\npromise to<br \/>\nbring order out of chaos.<br \/>\nPaper bits,<br \/>\nnotions<br \/>\nextracted from this moveable<br \/>\nbrain, mingle with silver.<\/p>\n<p>But it is too small for secrets, it<br \/>\ncan only contain the mundane;<br \/>\nthe lines<br \/>\ntoo orderly, too rigid. Muse<br \/>\nneeds galactic<br \/>\nspace,<br \/>\ndemands borderless playgrounds<br \/>\nto spill the soul\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Room to Play It sits on the nightstand, a spiral-bound stack of deadwood no larger than a cassette tape, clad in magenta, offering one hundred and sixty invitations to commune with myself. A black butterfly clip divides past from present; faint blue lines promise to bring order out of chaos. Paper bits, notions extracted from [&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-2509","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\/2509","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=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10321,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/10321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}