{"id":6846,"date":"2011-09-02T08:07:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T15:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:32:16","slug":"heavy-with-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2011\/09\/02\/heavy-with-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy With Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words. &#8230;The tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. The world of things we perceive is but a veil. Its flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. Its silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we wish the world would cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Abraham Joshua Heschel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words. &#8230;The tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. The world of things we perceive is but a veil. Its flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. Its silence remains unbroken; no words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6846","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\/6846","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=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}