{"id":1360,"date":"2006-01-19T01:33:58","date_gmt":"2006-01-19T09:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/01\/19\/cool-stuff-in-my-mailbox\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:45:03","slug":"cool-stuff-in-my-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/01\/19\/cool-stuff-in-my-mailbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Stuff In My Mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/88516190\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/38\/88516190_a6a7cf2a9a.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"message in a bottle\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>I sent a postcard to a participant on PostcardX. Lo! She responded! I haven&#8217;t yet opened it up to read the note. Yes, this bottle came through the mail exactly as you see it here. It cost three first-class stamps. It&#8217;s full of sparkly wire and small toys. The neat thing is she&#8217;s a retired therapist living in Texas (near Houston, but I&#8217;ll forgive that), she makes mixed media art using recycle materials, she spells her first name exactly like mine, and she&#8217;s in her late 60s &#8212; a glimpse of me a couple of decades from now, perhaps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent a postcard to a participant on PostcardX. Lo! She responded! I haven&#8217;t yet opened it up to read the note. Yes, this bottle came through the mail exactly as you see it here. It cost three first-class stamps. It&#8217;s full of sparkly wire and small toys. The neat thing is she&#8217;s a retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","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=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11406,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/11406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}