{"id":842,"date":"2005-04-11T20:17:37","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T04:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/04\/11\/dancing-with-a-banged-up-heart\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:23:19","slug":"dancing-with-a-banged-up-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/04\/11\/dancing-with-a-banged-up-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing With a Banged-Up Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooo, I want to read this!  Must restrain myself from rushing out to purchase it, though.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rubble is the ground on which our deepest friendships are built. If you haven&#8217;t already, you will lose someone you can&#8217;t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn&#8217;t seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart. You dance to the absurdities of life; you dance to the minuet of old friendships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Anne Lamott, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1573222992\/qid=1113275733\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/102-1676894-3032948\">Plan B:  Further Thoughts on Faith<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/other_side.blogspot.com\">Shirl<\/a>, a friend with whom I dance]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooo, I want to read this! Must restrain myself from rushing out to purchase it, though. Rubble is the ground on which our deepest friendships are built. If you haven&#8217;t already, you will lose someone you can&#8217;t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss 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":[28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","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\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12621,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/12621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}