{"id":2383,"date":"2005-11-07T11:43:37","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T18:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:46:24","slug":"slightly-askew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/11\/07\/slightly-askew\/","title":{"rendered":"Slightly Askew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All weekend I&#8217;ve had a restless feeling. My attention drifted and I couldn&#8217;t get settled. I did knit and make art, and these provided some immersion into contentment. But when I wasn&#8217;t doing those things, I felt somewhat on edge. There are small things nagging at the borders of my attention. I still haven&#8217;t sorted through the clutter on my desk. The garage is a mess because I&#8217;ve been using it for art. The house could use some cleaning. I intended to cook this weekend but didn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>What <i>did<\/i> I accomplish? I completed Christmas shopping for my parents and my sister-in-law (we sibs take turns giving to one sib each year). The sister-in-law on the other side of the family, as well as my husband&#8217;s immediate relatives, remain to be done. I made headway on a scarf I&#8217;m knitting. Did laundry. Made art. Cleaned up the kitchen (and now it needs it again).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know&#8230; just have this somewhat caged feeling. Perhaps a walk is in order. Winter is coming. It&#8217;s supposed to rain today (finally!). I&#8217;d best get out while it&#8217;s dry yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All weekend I&#8217;ve had a restless feeling. My attention drifted and I couldn&#8217;t get settled. I did knit and make art, and these provided some immersion into contentment. But when I wasn&#8217;t doing those things, I felt somewhat on edge. There are small things nagging at the borders of my attention. I still haven&#8217;t sorted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,214,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-domestic-arts","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","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=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/10958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}