{"id":656,"date":"2004-10-17T22:28:33","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T06:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/10\/17\/comfort-the-grieving\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:21:33","slug":"comfort-the-grieving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/10\/17\/comfort-the-grieving\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort The Grieving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from a poem by Adrienne Rich, titled <cite>Afterward<\/cite>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now that your hopes are shamed, you stand<br \/>At last believing and resigned,<br \/>And none of us who touch your hand<br \/>Know how to give you back in kind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A dear friend called tonight to inform me that her husband committed suicide this weekend.  My heart is broken for her.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please<\/em>, if you&#8217;re considering suicide, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metanoia.org\/suicide\">read this first<\/a>.  Also, a visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/incrisis.html\">here<\/a> will provide more links to hotline numbers.  There is hope.  Please hold on and reach out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from a poem by Adrienne Rich, titled Afterward: Now that your hopes are shamed, you standAt last believing and resigned,And none of us who touch your handKnow how to give you back in kind. A dear friend called tonight to inform me that her husband committed suicide this weekend. My heart is broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","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=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12769,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/12769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}