{"id":377,"date":"2004-04-30T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/04\/30\/yum\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:18:58","slug":"yum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/04\/30\/yum\/","title":{"rendered":"Yum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denny&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bookoflife.blogs.com\/welcome\/2004\/04\/gardenia.html\">entry today<\/a> offers a gorgeous close-up of gardenia blossoms.  They look velvety and creamy.  I can almost feel their texture on my skin.  And the scent!  Imagine lying on a bed of petals, with a blanket of them covering you in a soft drift.  I would savor the caress of such a gift.<\/p>\n<p>I have always thought that if I were to be reincarnated as a non-animal, I would like to be a cloud (or clouds).  I am fascinated by them, gazing intently out the window whenever I take a plane.  Some are mountain ranges while others are expansive beaches of mist.  From above they look substantial, three-dimensional, though this is an illusion my eyes seduce my brain into thinking.  Clouds are air, everywhere and nowhere, embodying nothing yet holding everything.  To me, clouds are a manifestation of divine touch.  They permeate, dissipate, cast shadows, reflect light, and are constantly transforming.  The photo of gardenias brought them to mind.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src=\"\/mlimages\/gardenia.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denny&#8217;s entry today offers a gorgeous close-up of gardenia blossoms. They look velvety and creamy. I can almost feel their texture on my skin. And the scent! Imagine lying on a bed of petals, with a blanket of them covering you in a soft drift. I would savor the caress of such a gift. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","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=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12976,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/12976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}