{"id":231,"date":"2004-02-01T23:41:13","date_gmt":"2004-02-02T07:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/02\/01\/create-and-tell-your-story\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:17:26","slug":"create-and-tell-your-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/02\/01\/create-and-tell-your-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Create and Tell Your Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anita of <a title=\"Chantlady learns to sing\" href=\"http:\/\/chantlady.blogspot.com\/archives\/2004_02_01_chantlady_archive.html#107568770649933101\">Chantlady learns to sing<\/a> has stirred something in me with her musings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAll I want is to be in <em>one place<\/em>, and do <em>one important thing<\/em>. I need to imagine something new, to slow down the momentum of my life, What I know is that I&#8217;m sick of this ridiculous life I&#8217;m living in the American suburbs. A fast life going nowhere, driving past shopping centers and Wal-marts, multiplex theaters, all the buildings I never set foot in, except for one, the tall building where I work, sitting in a cubicle that contains a desk, a phone, and a computer, day after day. Everything seeks to be made into a story. What is the story that my life is seeking? What is the story that your life is seeking?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita of Chantlady learns to sing has stirred something in me with her musings: All I want is to be in one place, and do one important thing. I need to imagine something new, to slow down the momentum of my life, What I know is that I&#8217;m sick of this ridiculous life I&#8217;m living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13103,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/13103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}