{"id":8210,"date":"2014-01-27T19:37:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T03:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=8210"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:31:23","slug":"farewell-stella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2014\/01\/27\/farewell-stella\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Stella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dear Fur Person friend, Stella Bella the cat, died today. She was 17 years old. She had tumors in her bladder and on her lung. Sometime I will write about the adventures we had with her, and her many catly qualities. But today, just this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Farewell Stella<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I stroke your fur<br \/>\nno purr<br \/>\nfrail limbs give<br \/>\nno resistance<br \/>\nlaid out tenderly<br \/>\nno movement<br \/>\neyes half open<br \/>\nno vision.<br \/>\nIt was a good life<br \/>\na long life<br \/>\nand we let you go<br \/>\nbefore we wanted<br \/>\nto spare you suffering.<br \/>\nIt is the least we could do<br \/>\nfor all the joy and love<br \/>\nyou gave us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Kathryn Harper<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/12183250764\/\" title=\"DSC05960 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3720\/12183250764_ace6d87b6e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"DSC05960\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/12183064413\/\" title=\"DSC05966 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7353\/12183064413_7d88a7b454.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSC05966\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/12183455056\/\" title=\"DSC05948 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3805\/12183455056_12b6de040c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"DSC05948\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear Fur Person friend, Stella Bella the cat, died today. She was 17 years old. She had tumors in her bladder and on her lung. Sometime I will write about the adventures we had with her, and her many catly qualities. But today, just this. Farewell Stella I stroke your fur no purr frail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,16,219],"tags":[71,140,69,61,152,229],"class_list":["post-8210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-nature","category-spirit","tag-cat","tag-death","tag-grief","tag-life","tag-love","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210","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=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10591,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions\/10591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}