{"id":1972,"date":"2007-06-24T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T01:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/06\/24\/just-one-more-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:12","slug":"just-one-more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/06\/24\/just-one-more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Just One More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the day in bed with my leg elevated to prevent knee stress. I&#8217;ve also been belching like a Yellowstone Park <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mud_pot\">mudpot<\/a>. I&#8217;m simply running out of room inside. Whenever I eat anymore (and I&#8217;ve always consumed small meals), hunger is alleviated but quickly followed by a feeling of bloating, discomfort, and gas. (No heartburn, thankfully!) I&#8217;m not complaining; this is part of gestation. I&#8217;ve passed the hours by gluing photos into my pregnancy journal and updating entries, writing thank-you notes, and reading. Husband fetches anything I ask for. He&#8217;ll be cooking tonight. <\/p>\n<p>This year I&#8217;ve been notably disinterested in my birthday, which is today. I&#8217;ve received several cards and some gifts, which I appreciate. Yet when people have asked if I made any special plans, the answer has been no. This natal anniversary suddenly seems irrelevant. I&#8217;ve become focused on another birthday, and mine pales in comparison. <\/p>\n<p>For the first time in my life, I&#8217;ve felt to respond with, &#8220;What&#8217;s the big deal? It&#8217;s just another year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I feel odd!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the day in bed with my leg elevated to prevent knee stress. I&#8217;ve also been belching like a Yellowstone Park mudpot. I&#8217;m simply running out of room inside. Whenever I eat anymore (and I&#8217;ve always consumed small meals), hunger is alleviated but quickly followed by a feeling of bloating, discomfort, and gas. (No [&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-1972","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\/1972","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=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11295,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/11295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}