{"id":330,"date":"2004-03-24T17:24:18","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T01:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/03\/24\/a-day-brightener\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:18:36","slug":"a-day-brightener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/03\/24\/a-day-brightener\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day Brightener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I so enjoyed this vignette from <a title=\"Witt Bits\" href=\"http:\/\/wittbits.blogspot.com\/2004_03_01_wittbits_archive.html#107984402572196263\">Witt Bits<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn another note, I have this loyalty to my breakfast cereal. I find one brand, one flavor, decide I like it, and eat nothing but that cereal for breakfast for months&#8230; sometimes years. My morning choice since I joined Weight Watchers 3 years ago has been Kashi Good Friends. Last week I decided I was ready for a change. I purchased a package of Nature&#8217;s Path Organic Optimum Zen Cereal, Cranberry Ginger &#8220;for inner harmony.&#8221; I can do ZEN. After all I&#8217;m taking yoga lessons once a week so Zen would be good. This morning I was ready for the Zen experience. I opened the cardboard, flip tab. Reached in to open the inner plastic bag. Pulled, tugged and struggled for a good five minutes. No luck. This was not a Zen moment. Then I saw the inside flap with the little picture of Scissors cutting off the corner of a bag. I got my glasses out. &#8220;Airtight bags for freshness&#8230;cut bag.&#8221; Now to find the scissors. Let&#8217;s just say by the time I found the scissors it was not a Zen breakfast and my innards have not harmonized.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for the laugh, m&#8217;dear!  I too have struggled with the Nature&#8217;s Path supersealed bag.  Only mine is the Optimum cereal with blueberries, and it didn&#8217;t promise a transcendent experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I so enjoyed this vignette from Witt Bits: On another note, I have this loyalty to my breakfast cereal. I find one brand, one flavor, decide I like it, and eat nothing but that cereal for breakfast for months&#8230; sometimes years. My morning choice since I joined Weight Watchers 3 years ago has been Kashi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-humor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12069,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/12069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}