{"id":1958,"date":"2007-06-09T17:53:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T00:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/06\/09\/a-mothers-faith\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:20","slug":"a-mothers-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/06\/09\/a-mothers-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother&#8217;s Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/536568608\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1077\/536568608_d31c459a74.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"a mother's faith\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tomorrow is the baby shower my friends are holding for me. All my family lives out of town, so they sent gifts. My mother sent some that have personal significance and history, and so I called her and opened the gifts while on the phone. <\/p>\n<p>The photo above represents some of what she sent. The white and gold blanket was used for my christening and my brother&#8217;s. The pale pink wisp of a slip was <em>mine<\/em>; I wore it as a toddler! She purchased the handmade layette from a friend decades ago, waiting for the day one of her children had a child. My siblings have not pursued parenthood, and neither had I for a long time; my parents were very cool about this. They never nagged their children about when one of us would provide a grandchild. But I know it was my mother&#8217;s hope. Purchasing the outfit and holding on to some childhood things was an expression of faith that someday, one of her children might take that path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is the baby shower my friends are holding for me. All my family lives out of town, so they sent gifts. My mother sent some that have personal significance and history, and so I called her and opened the gifts while on the phone. The photo above represents some of what she sent. 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-1958","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\/1958","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=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11513,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/11513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}