{"id":2672,"date":"2008-08-19T13:02:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T20:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:25:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:25:56","slug":"patience-grasshopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/08\/19\/patience-grasshopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience, Grasshopper!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scene: Dinnertime, 6:30 p.m. I am standing at the kitchen counter, Husband is leaning against the sink. <\/p>\n<p>Me: I swear, Bean seems hungry <em>every hour<\/em> lately. I&#8217;m chopping up some vegetables for her. [Bean is clinging to my butt, whining in hunger.]<\/p>\n<p>Him: What did you make for dinner?<\/p>\n<p>Me: I made chicken ratatou&#8211;ee-y<em>OUCH<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Him: Did you cut yourself? What&#8217;s wrong? [He immediately steps over to check on me.]<\/p>\n<p>Me: Bean bit me! The little rascal just bit the back of my thigh!<\/p>\n<p>Him: Oh, I thought you&#8217;d cut yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Me: She bit me! She bit me! What an impatient little stinker. <\/p>\n<p>Him: Well, she takes after her mother. [wink]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scene: Dinnertime, 6:30 p.m. I am standing at the kitchen counter, Husband is leaning against the sink. Me: I swear, Bean seems hungry every hour lately. I&#8217;m chopping up some vegetables for her. [Bean is clinging to my butt, whining in hunger.] Him: What did you make for dinner? Me: I made chicken ratatou&#8211;ee-yOUCH! Him: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-arts","category-humor","category-motherhood"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","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=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13726,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/13726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}