{"id":9653,"date":"2017-12-08T10:42:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:14:13","slug":"this-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2017\/12\/08\/this-time-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"This Time of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dark feels so heavy. Most of the time I prefer to see things, focused on what is reflected to me. Seeing and touching objects confirms my existence and sense of reality. I know where to travel. Without light reflecting off things, I notice the void. The void is without form. It is endless and terrifying. And yet\u2026 it is within darkness that I was conceived and took form within my mother\u2019s body. And it is from the void of space that all form emerged, the elements, stars, planets, life. This time of year invites us to face the dark, and to sit with it long enough to accept it. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/38202626644\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" title=\"Light and shadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4586\/38202626644_a9031742af.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Light and shadow\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dark feels so heavy. Most of the time I prefer to see things, focused on what is reflected to me. Seeing and touching objects confirms my existence and sense of reality. I know where to travel. Without light reflecting off things, I notice the void. The void is without form. It is endless and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653","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=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9656,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions\/9656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}