{"id":548,"date":"2004-09-02T10:25:40","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/02\/a-gorgeous-death\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:20:38","slug":"a-gorgeous-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/02\/a-gorgeous-death\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gorgeous Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love reading <a title=\"Kat's Paws: Lost in Penn Station\" href=\"http:\/\/katspaws.blogs.com\/kats_paws\/2004\/09\/lost_in_penn_st.html\">Kat&#8217;s Paws<\/a>.  She writes poetic nuggets, such as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s cool enough for pants today. That fall chill is nosing it&#8217;s way in. Just slightly. Enough to let you know that, hey, underneath all this greenery there&#8217;s a gorgeous death about to occur. The fireworks of fall leaves. The send-off of warmth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fall is my absolute favorite time of year.  Every year since leaving, I become wistful for Nature&#8217;s northeast extravaganza.  There&#8217;s also something compelling about the &#8220;gorgeous death&#8221; concept.  Culturally we aren&#8217;t comfortable with death.  It&#8217;s difficult enough to die with dignity here.  What would a gorgeous death be like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love reading Kat&#8217;s Paws. She writes poetic nuggets, such as: It&#8217;s cool enough for pants today. That fall chill is nosing it&#8217;s way in. Just slightly. Enough to let you know that, hey, underneath all this greenery there&#8217;s a gorgeous death about to occur. The fireworks of fall leaves. The send-off of warmth. Fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-nature","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12852,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/12852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}