{"id":2535,"date":"2008-06-17T00:16:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T07:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:36:50","slug":"oh-little-one-four-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/06\/17\/oh-little-one-four-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Little One: Four Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oh Little One: Four Haiku<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That brave little neck,<br \/>\nthe stem of a sunflower;<br \/>\nyour brain is blooming.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nYour luscious curved cheek<br \/>\nis a small apple that begs<br \/>\nfor tender kisses.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nThe tree sapling back<br \/>\nnourishes roots and branches;<br \/>\nmay it grow mighty.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nHands touch but don&#8217;t clutch<br \/>\nlike curious mice seeking<br \/>\ntheir fortune in cheese.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Kathryn Harper<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2566840628\/\" title=\"she loves books by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3076\/2566840628_b8cf9d19fb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"she loves books\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>How I love her!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Little One: Four Haiku That brave little neck, the stem of a sunflower; your brain is blooming. &#8212;&#8211; Your luscious curved cheek is a small apple that begs for tender kisses. &#8212;&#8211; The tree sapling back nourishes roots and branches; may it grow mighty. &#8212;&#8211; Hands touch but don&#8217;t clutch like curious mice seeking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,28,34,16,215,27],"tags":[41,329,61,152,222,229,198],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-humanities","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-poetry","category-recreation","tag-baby","tag-haiku","tag-life","tag-love","tag-motherhood","tag-poetry","tag-wonder"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","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=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10610,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/10610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}