{"id":2303,"date":"2008-04-03T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T18:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:17:53","slug":"when-i-say-its-right-outside-her-window-i-mean-it-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/04\/03\/when-i-say-its-right-outside-her-window-i-mean-it-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Say It&#8217;s Right Outside Her Window, I Mean It Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2385822460\/\" title=\"garbage truck by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3194\/2385822460_4fc12d2ac9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"garbage truck\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This truck, as well as the recycling truck, arrive at variable times every Thursday morning and are usually responsible for ruining Bean&#8217;s morning nap. This morning, by some fluke, she got a 90 minute nap in before the first truck arrived. She needs another nap but the other one hasn&#8217;t come through yet. It&#8217;s also impossible to avoid the smell of diesel exhaust even when her window is closed. Fortunately this only happens for about 10 minutes once a week. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve made it a habit to watch the garbage truck since December, and now the garbage man always looks up and waves at us and smiles. She&#8217;s fascinated by it all, though cautious about the big noises. The roar of the motor that lifts the cans is louder, even, than the truck engine.<\/p>\n<p>Bean&#8217;s got the sneezies and runny nose again, plus a little cough. And a sore bottom (four poops today and all before 10 a.m.); she cried at her last changing and I used Calmoseptine. And maybe another tooth coming in, because she&#8217;s a river of drool and chewing on everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This truck, as well as the recycling truck, arrive at variable times every Thursday morning and are usually responsible for ruining Bean&#8217;s morning nap. This morning, by some fluke, she got a 90 minute nap in before the first truck arrived. She needs another nap but the other one hasn&#8217;t come through yet. It&#8217;s also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","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=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13830,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/13830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}