{"id":2171,"date":"2007-12-03T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T17:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/12\/03\/a-little-merry-bright\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:38:29","slug":"a-little-merry-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/12\/03\/a-little-merry-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Merry &#038; Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the dark season. I need light.<\/p>\n<p>Two strands of garland: $1.98<br \/>\nOne string of mini-lights: $2.00<br \/>\nPleasure derived and sanity maintained: Priceless<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2083633805\/\" title=\"christmas 2007 window by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2267\/2083633805_44c53f0fbc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"christmas 2007 window\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I also strung one set of lights (minus the garland) in the office room window. Heck, when Stella goes to use the catbox, doesn&#8217;t she deserve a little beauty too? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>This was easy and stress-free to do. <a href=\"http:\/\/mommazen.blogspot.com\/\">Someone<\/a> reminded me that small is beautiful and wished me to have myself a Merry LITTLE Christmas. Ahhh, permission. (I may, I might, still put up the tree. But <em>only<\/em> if the idea of it provides joy to me and triggers a sense of relaxation. Husband is waiting while I mull it over until next weekend. Well, he told me to wait, and since he&#8217;s the one who knows where the stuff is stored and has the strength to pull it out, I&#8217;m compelled to oblige.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the dark season. I need light. Two strands of garland: $1.98 One string of mini-lights: $2.00 Pleasure derived and sanity maintained: Priceless I also strung one set of lights (minus the garland) in the office room window. Heck, when Stella goes to use the catbox, doesn&#8217;t she deserve a little beauty too? \ud83d\ude09 This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,27],"tags":[196,188,197],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-recreation","tag-decorations","tag-holiday","tag-sanity"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","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=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4514,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}