{"id":2711,"date":"2008-09-01T16:18:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:23:09","slug":"validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/09\/01\/validation\/","title":{"rendered":"Validation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m holding Bean, giving her the afternoon bottle of milk. She is dawdling in my arms while her father and I chat on this quiet Monday afternoon. I look up from Bean&#8217;s gaze and ask, &#8220;Do you think Bean loves me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course she does,&#8221; answers Husband. He pauses. &#8220;Her feelings are so big she doesn&#8217;t even know it&#8217;s love. It&#8217;s just raw <em>MOM-meeeeee!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I let the words sink in, and then I rapidly blink to clear my teary eyes. What a beautiful and apt perception. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;William Makepeace Thackeray<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m holding Bean, giving her the afternoon bottle of milk. She is dawdling in my arms while her father and I chat on this quiet Monday afternoon. I look up from Bean&#8217;s gaze and ask, &#8220;Do you think Bean loves me?&#8221; &#8220;Of course she does,&#8221; answers Husband. He pauses. &#8220;Her feelings are so big she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","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=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13720,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions\/13720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}