{"id":10628,"date":"2020-09-15T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10628"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:28:22","slug":"what-you-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2020\/09\/15\/what-you-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade<\/strong><br \/>\nby Brad Aaron Modlin<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen<br \/>\nto the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas,<br \/>\nhow peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. She took<br \/>\nquestions on how not to feel lost in the dark<br \/>\nAfter lunch she distributed worksheets<br \/>\nthat covered ways to remember your grandfather\u2019s<br \/>\nvoice. Then the class discussed falling asleep<br \/>\nwithout feeling you had forgotten to do something else\u2014<br \/>\nsomething important\u2014and how to believe<br \/>\nthe house you wake in is your home. This prompted<br \/>\nMrs. Nelson to draw a chalkboard diagram detailing<br \/>\nhow to chant the Psalms during cigarette breaks,<br \/>\nand how not to squirm for sound when your own thoughts<br \/>\nare all you hear; also, that you have enough.<br \/>\nThe English lesson was that I am<br \/>\nis a complete sentence.<br \/>\nAnd just before the afternoon bell, she made the math equation<br \/>\nlook easy. The one that proves that hundreds of questions,<br \/>\nand feeling cold, and all those nights spent looking<br \/>\nfor whatever it was you lost, and one person<br \/>\nadd up to something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade by Brad Aaron Modlin Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas, how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,215],"tags":[270,266,342,61,152,229],"class_list":["post-10628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-poetry","tag-attention","tag-education","tag-learning","tag-life","tag-love","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628","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=10628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10630,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions\/10630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}