{"id":2514,"date":"2006-03-13T20:01:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T03:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:35","slug":"crucifixion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/13\/crucifixion\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucifixion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crucifixion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She wills him to leave.<br \/>\nHe shred her with words and now<br \/>\nshe is every slut who ever lived,<br \/>\nthe Levite&#8217;s worthless concubine from Bethlehem<br \/>\nas she stands scrubbing under<br \/>\nstinging, steaming needles of water,<br \/>\nas she cooks him out from under<br \/>\nher flesh, now banana tender,<br \/>\nwelting purple at the wrists, breasts, thighs.<\/p>\n<p>He permeates her head, the<br \/>\nmusky mushroom scent stubbornly<br \/>\nremains regardless how much<br \/>\nshe retches and spits;<br \/>\nshe bites the bar of soap as though<br \/>\ntaking communion, seeking its promise<br \/>\nto trade cleanliness for evil.<\/p>\n<p>She stands, trembling and heaving<br \/>\nfrom gut to fingertips<br \/>\nshaking bone deep cold,<br \/>\nand the blood,<br \/>\nthe blood won&#8217;t stop,<br \/>\nevidence of a sacrifice<br \/>\nthat was not his<br \/>\nto make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crucifixion She wills him to leave. He shred her with words and now she is every slut who ever lived, the Levite&#8217;s worthless concubine from Bethlehem as she stands scrubbing under stinging, steaming needles of water, as she cooks him out from under her flesh, now banana tender, welting purple at the wrists, breasts, thighs. [&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-2514","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\/2514","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=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10315,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/10315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}