{"id":2145,"date":"2007-11-16T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/11\/16\/you-bet\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:38:45","slug":"you-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/11\/16\/you-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"You Bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I joined <a href=\"http:\/\/lasmadres.org\/\">Las Madres<\/a> a couple months ago. I found there&#8217;s a group for mothers age 40+. Tonight there&#8217;s a Mother&#8217;s Night Out potluck. Do ya think I&#8217;ll be there? I plan on it. I can sacrifice an early bedtime for a chance to make new friends and find support.<\/p>\n<p>A question: Would I be an evil person, in that I&#8217;m wasting a precious resource, if I run the dishwasher only partly full in the morning because the sound helps my daughter sleep in her swing? If the answer is yes, does the fact that it&#8217;s loaded with baby bottle paraphernalia, and that I use the <em>extra hot water<\/em> and <em>sanitize<\/em> settings to get them really clean, forgive this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined Las Madres a couple months ago. I found there&#8217;s a group for mothers age 40+. Tonight there&#8217;s a Mother&#8217;s Night Out potluck. Do ya think I&#8217;ll be there? I plan on it. I can sacrifice an early bedtime for a chance to make new friends and find support. A question: Would I be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[159,158,157],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-motherhood","tag-conservation","tag-las-madres","tag-mothers-night-out"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","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=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4499,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/4499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}