{"id":1768,"date":"2006-12-14T22:59:05","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T06:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/12\/14\/first-line\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:48","slug":"first-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/12\/14\/first-line\/","title":{"rendered":"First Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodka.com\/2006\/12\/13\/first-lines\/\">Donna did it<\/a>, so I thought I&#8217;d play along. It makes me think I should aim for more auspicious first sentences of my own (some of these are quotes).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/01\/01\/movement-change-becoming\/\">January<\/a>: Answering a question posed by a reader who wanted to know what one of the bulletin board quotes was (it was too blurry)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/02\/02\/yet-stand-they-here-enraptured\/\">February<\/a>: this is the garden: colours come and go, <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/01\/souvenir\/\">March<\/a>: Because of a total absence of information, when I booked my flight, I took the earliest flight because the travel agent had been told we were to arrive by noon Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/04\/01\/snarky-but-hes-got-a-point\/\">April<\/a>: People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/05\/01\/crucial-differences\/\">May<\/a>: The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/06\/01\/thought-provoking\/\">June<\/a>: Q: Should we avoid eating meat, since it entails killing?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/07\/01\/for-the-memories\/\">July<\/a>: This item was used at the weddings of two sets of friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/08\/02\/illustration-friday-clean\/\">August<\/a>: This was my mind before I had my massage last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/09\/04\/take-a-hike\/\">September<\/a>: On Labor Day, Husband and I went out to Henry Coe State Park for a hike.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/10\/01\/this\/\">October<\/a>:  This\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6made me cry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/11\/01\/art-everyday-month-2006\/\">November<\/a>: Last year I joined Kat at Kat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Paws to make art everyday in November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/12\/01\/nother-day\/\">December<\/a>: Well, whatever funk hit me yesterday held off today (or disappeared?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Donna did it, so I thought I&#8217;d play along. It makes me think I should aim for more auspicious first sentences of my own (some of these are quotes). January: Answering a question posed by a reader who wanted to know what one of the bulletin board quotes was (it was too blurry) February: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaney"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","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=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11470,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/11470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}