{"id":288,"date":"2004-02-26T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T08:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/02\/26\/life-was-like\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:18:07","slug":"life-was-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/02\/26\/life-was-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Was Like&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The year she graduated, her yearbook entry, like many others, said, &#8220;Future:  Homemaker.&#8221;  Not an ambitious choice by today&#8217;s standards, she knows.  Not an impossible one, she thought at the time.  Life was like a trip to the Piggly Wiggly, she assumed in those days.  You went in with a vague idea of what you wanted, followed the arrows up and down the aisles, and emerged, like everyone else, with a full cart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Lisa Koger, &#8220;The Retirement Party,&#8221; (1990) from <a href=\"http:\/\/allconsuming.net\/item.cgi?isbn=1585672599\">In the Stacks<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year she graduated, her yearbook entry, like many others, said, &#8220;Future: Homemaker.&#8221; Not an ambitious choice by today&#8217;s standards, she knows. Not an impossible one, she thought at the time. Life was like a trip to the Piggly Wiggly, she assumed in those days. You went in with a vague idea of what you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13055,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/13055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}