{"id":445,"date":"2004-05-28T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T23:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/28\/a-quality-of-time\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:38","slug":"a-quality-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/28\/a-quality-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quality of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td>As a place becomes known, people start<br \/>to flock there.  Some come in a sacred manner.<br \/>Others are boisterous and unconscious, as if they feared<br \/>the knowledge of themselves which the place invites.<\/p>\n<p>When you come to a place honor its rhythm and its voice.<br \/>We think that our small talk has some importance, but<br \/>All our noise is like a twig breaking in a redwood forest.<br \/>A tree breathes once a year.<br \/>A great rock&#8217;s heart beats in mellenia.<\/p>\n<p>The land has a quality of time which steadies us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Frederick Lerhman, <u>The Sacred Landscape<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a place becomes known, people startto flock there. Some come in a sacred manner.Others are boisterous and unconscious, as if they fearedthe knowledge of themselves which the place invites. When you come to a place honor its rhythm and its voice.We think that our small talk has some importance, butAll our noise is like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-nature","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12922,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/12922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}