{"id":8221,"date":"2014-01-29T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T19:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=8221"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:31:14","slug":"rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2014\/01\/29\/rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at what we woke up to! <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/12210094516\/\" title=\"rain by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3784\/12210094516_3eb3d942a1.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"rain\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re praying for much much more of it.<\/p>\n<p>And, from one of my favorite poets: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Rainy Morning<\/p>\n<p>A young woman in a wheelchair,<br \/>\nwearing a black nylon poncho spattered with rain<br \/>\nis pushing herself through the morning.<br \/>\nYou have seen how pianists<br \/>\nsometimes bend forward to strike the keys,<br \/>\nthen lift their hands, draw back to rest,<br \/>\nthen lean again to strike just as the chord fades.<br \/>\nSuch is the way this woman<br \/>\nstrikes at the wheels, then lifts her long white fingers,<br \/>\nletting them float, then bends again to strike<br \/>\njust as the chair slows, as if into a silence.<br \/>\nSo expertly she plays the chords<br \/>\nof this difficult music she has mastered,<br \/>\nher wet face beautiful in its concentration,<br \/>\nwhile the wind turns the pages of rain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Ted Kooser, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Delights-Shadows-Ted-Kooser\/dp\/1556592019\">Delights and Shadows<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at what we woke up to! We&#8217;re praying for much much more of it. And, from one of my favorite poets: A Rainy Morning A young woman in a wheelchair, wearing a black nylon poncho spattered with rain is pushing herself through the morning. You have seen how pianists sometimes bend forward to strike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,215,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-poetry","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221","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=8221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8225,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions\/8225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}