{"id":2309,"date":"2008-04-08T20:18:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T04:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:37:21","slug":"mr-rogers-i-am-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/04\/08\/mr-rogers-i-am-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Rogers I Am Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that I don&#8217;t always exhibit kindness. In fact, I can be a defensive, judgmental, argumentative, entitled, and angry person. I had an encounter just now that showed me this. It&#8217;s not how I want to be. Let me put it this way: I&#8217;m not very graceful when things go wrong and it&#8217;s my fault. I become defensive and argumentative. When I was a therapist, I was able to help others; I had perspective. But when it comes to my own self, I&#8217;m still reactive sometimes. This reactivity comes from a very primitive place. <\/p>\n<p>When will I learn to be different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that I don&#8217;t always exhibit kindness. In fact, I can be a defensive, judgmental, argumentative, entitled, and angry person. I had an encounter just now that showed me this. It&#8217;s not how I want to be. Let me put it this way: I&#8217;m not very graceful when things go wrong and [&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-2309","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\/2309","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=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11598,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/11598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}