{"id":2513,"date":"2006-03-14T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:27","slug":"minstrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/14\/minstrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Minstrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Minstrel <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Words tumble from your mouth,<br \/>\nso many happy children rolling<br \/>\ndown fields at play;<br \/>\nvibrant, sonorous, thrilling with energy<br \/>\nas they leap and chase each other.<br \/>\nYour voice a symphony,<br \/>\na rich honey tenor pouring into me<br \/>\ninscribing life on my heart;<br \/>\ncrescendoing in passionate explanation,<br \/>\nnow resting, silence drawing me forth<br \/>\ninto the next movement<br \/>\nand your heartbeat a metronome<br \/>\nbeating a river of strength<br \/>\nbeneath magnificent melodies.<\/p>\n<p>Your breath whispers caresses to my soul,<br \/>\ntender wisp of touch here,<br \/>\nlong circling stroke there,<br \/>\nwooing me to dance the delicate cadence of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minstrel Words tumble from your mouth, so many happy children rolling down fields at play; vibrant, sonorous, thrilling with energy as they leap and chase each other. Your voice a symphony, a rich honey tenor pouring into me inscribing life on my heart; crescendoing in passionate explanation, now resting, silence drawing me forth into the [&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-2513","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\/2513","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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10318,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/10318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}