{"id":481,"date":"2004-07-04T00:27:59","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T08:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/07\/04\/breathing-room\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:57","slug":"breathing-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/07\/04\/breathing-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathing Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><cite>Housing Shortage<\/cite> <\/p>\n<p><i>I tried to live small.<br \/>I took a narrow bed.<br \/>I held my elbows to my  sides.<br \/>I tried to step carefully<br \/>And to think softly<br \/>And to breathe shallowly<br \/>In my portion of air<br \/>And to disturb no one.    <\/p>\n<p>Yet see how I spread out and I cannot help it.<br \/>I take to myself more  and more, and I take nothing<br \/>That I do not need, but my needs grow like  weeds,<br \/>All over and invading; I clutter this place<br \/>With all the apparatus  of living.<br \/>You stumble over it daily.    <\/p>\n<p>And then my lungs take their fill.<br \/>And then you gasp for air.<br \/>Excuse  me for living,<br \/>But, since I am living,<br \/>Given inches, I take yards,<br \/>Taking  yards, dream of miles,<br \/>And a landscape, unbounded<br \/>And vast in abandon.    <\/p>\n<p>You too dreaming the same.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Naomi Replansky<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing Shortage I tried to live small.I took a narrow bed.I held my elbows to my sides.I tried to step carefullyAnd to think softlyAnd to breathe shallowlyIn my portion of airAnd to disturb no one. Yet see how I spread out and I cannot help it.I take to myself more and more, and I take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12899,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/12899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}