{"id":817,"date":"2005-03-23T17:51:52","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T01:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/03\/23\/joy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:22:56","slug":"joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/03\/23\/joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<center><b>Kali In An Onion<\/b><\/center><br \/>\nI heft the white onion in my right hand;<br \/>\nthe sunlight slanting through the window<br \/>\ncaresses it, brings a glow to this smooth moon.<br \/>\nIn my left hand I grasp a knife, blade glinting;<br \/>\nas homage to mother Kali, I split the globe.<br \/>\nPeeling off the outer layer, a husk of secrets;<br \/>\nvulnerable, the cloven orb rests passively.<br \/>\nAgain I lift the knife, slicing, chopping,<br \/>\nbreaking integrity of form into mosaic<br \/>\npieces, a small supernova of pungency.<br \/>\nMy eyes weep, observing the demise of<br \/>\nunity, while my heart trills with joy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kali In An Onion I heft the white onion in my right hand; the sunlight slanting through the window caresses it, brings a glow to this smooth moon. In my left hand I grasp a knife, blade glinting; as homage to mother Kali, I split the globe. Peeling off the outer layer, a husk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}