{"id":2010,"date":"2007-08-03T23:43:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T06:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/08\/03\/looking-on-the-bright-side\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:39:55","slug":"looking-on-the-bright-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/08\/03\/looking-on-the-bright-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking On the Bright Side?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/07\/05\/it-begins\/\">that the roofs of our town homes will be replaced in August<\/a>, and that when our building is being done (it takes eight days) we will need to have all our windows closed &#8212; and we have no air conditioning. Today we received notice that the roof demolition and replacement project for our building will begin on August 29. <\/p>\n<p>My due date is August 27. <\/p>\n<p>So the roofing project will take <em>nine<\/em> days (until September 7), because Labor Day falls within the project time frame and I&#8217;m sure no one will work that day. This sucks!!! If I go beyond my due date (and it&#8217;s probable), then I might go into labor during this project, and being inside a hot, stuffy building with banging overhead until I&#8217;m far enough along to check in at the hospital just sounds awful. When I first read the notice I cried.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m going to have to suck it up because I&#8217;ve no control over this. And for all I know I&#8217;ll go into labor sooner, or end up having a scheduled C-section or something. I just wanted to post my protest for posterity.<\/p>\n<p>And on the bright side, this means when my brother visits the 17th-21st, he won&#8217;t swelter as he sleeps in the loft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before that the roofs of our town homes will be replaced in August, and that when our building is being done (it takes eight days) we will need to have all our windows closed &#8212; and we have no air conditioning. Today we received notice that the roof demolition and replacement project for [&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-2010","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\/2010","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=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11331,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/11331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}