{"id":1451,"date":"2006-03-19T01:16:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T09:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/19\/that-non-computer-weekend-i-suggested\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:26","slug":"that-non-computer-weekend-i-suggested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/19\/that-non-computer-weekend-i-suggested\/","title":{"rendered":"That Non-Computer Weekend I Suggested?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t really done that. <a href=\"http:\/\/splintering.blogspot.com\/\">Laurel<\/a> turned me on to a <a href=\"http:\/\/immaculateconniption.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/page-119.html\">poetry exercise<\/a>, and I dove in. It provided immense pleasure in the writing. And of course I had to create a venue for it! As with knitting blather, I don&#8217;t want to bore my readers here with poetry (because obviously not everyone enjoys or &#8220;gets&#8221; it, though more folks would if they tried). Curious (and patient, indulgent) readers can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/aenigmas.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/theres-always-looking-after.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I did get out with Husband to purchase a fluffy down comforter and machine-washable duvet. Our old comforter was ratty. I&#8217;ll post on that on the knitting\/domestic arts blog later. We also saw <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0384680\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9d2VhdGhlciBtYW58ZnQ9MXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8Y289MXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=23;fm=1\">The Weather Man<\/a>; excrutiating to watch, bitterly humorous. Poignant for us, since the protagonist&#8217;s father is diagnosed with lymphoma, the same illness that killed my father-in-law barely one year ago. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I may draw or garden. Aiming to be true to my offline intention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t really done that. Laurel turned me on to a poetry exercise, and I dove in. It provided immense pleasure in the writing. And of course I had to create a venue for it! As with knitting blather, I don&#8217;t want to bore my readers here with poetry (because obviously not everyone enjoys or [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11038,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/11038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}