{"id":1233,"date":"2005-11-22T02:49:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T10:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/22\/happy-birthday-to-my-father\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:46:15","slug":"happy-birthday-to-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/22\/happy-birthday-to-my-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to My Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my dad. He&#8217;s an introspective person. I get my voracious reading habit from him, as well as my inclination to tinker with words. He was a grade-school teacher, and an excellent one at that. For years I ran into adults who, upon learning my name, would ask if my father had been the teacher at their grade school. When I confirmed it, they would get a distant nostalgic look on their faces and speak fondly of what an impression he made on them. I took this photo during my trip up there in September. The linearity (yes, that is a word) was striking. All these lines moving in different directions seemed to capture the essence of my father: organized, complex, analytical.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/44575237\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" order='0' src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/29\/44575237_17ae48703f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"dad\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"photopostattribution\">&#8220;The Thinker&#8221; \/ 2005<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my dad. He&#8217;s an introspective person. I get my voracious reading habit from him, as well as my inclination to tinker with words. He was a grade-school teacher, and an excellent one at that. For years I ran into adults who, upon learning my name, would ask if my father had been the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","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\/1233","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=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10971,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/10971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}