{"id":2440,"date":"2006-12-07T15:57:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T22:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:56","slug":"behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/12\/07\/behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband is the elf for my brother this year (we each select one sibling to give to). However, he&#8217;s insanely busy, as is my brother; my brother doesn&#8217;t have time to think about what he wants and my husband can&#8217;t go shopping. So, I&#8217;m making a knit object for my brother. I&#8217;m the helper elf (basically I manage all gifting in our relationship, except for his gifts to me). But I realized today just how much I need to get going for it to be ready by Christmas. And we&#8217;re heading out in ten days; I&#8217;d like to have it finished by then.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>will not<\/em> get sucked into seasonal stress, I will <em>not<\/em> get sucked into seasonal stress, I will not get sucked into seasonal stress, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband is the elf for my brother this year (we each select one sibling to give to). However, he&#8217;s insanely busy, as is my brother; my brother doesn&#8217;t have time to think about what he wants and my husband can&#8217;t go shopping. So, I&#8217;m making a knit object for my brother. I&#8217;m the helper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-arts","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","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=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11476,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/11476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}