{"id":2395,"date":"2005-12-14T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T19:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:45:37","slug":"very-specific-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/12\/14\/very-specific-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Specific Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother makes a kick-ass stuffing. He and his wife are visiting over the holidays and he will make said stuffing. Today I received the following in an email from him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lest I forget, here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll need to have on hand for stuffing:<\/p>\n<p>One bag of herbed stuffing cubes (e.g., Pepperidge Farm) &#8211; not cornbread<\/p>\n<p>One roll of sage pork sausage (e.g., Jimmy Dean silver label, which is apparently now gold with a small silver medallion on the front) &#8211; brand is not important, but sage is<\/p>\n<p>one small bunch of celery<\/p>\n<p>three or four yellow onions<\/p>\n<p>three or four cans of chicken broth<\/p>\n<p>one stick of butter-esque fatty substance<\/p>\n<p>You must not vary from the path!  I will feel the disturbance in the Force if you do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s a kick-ass stuffing; because he&#8217;ll probably kick mine if I stray from the righteous path. \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother makes a kick-ass stuffing. He and his wife are visiting over the holidays and he will make said stuffing. Today I received the following in an email from him: Lest I forget, here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll need to have on hand for stuffing: One bag of herbed stuffing cubes (e.g., Pepperidge Farm) &#8211; not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-arts","category-humor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","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=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10975,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/10975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}