{"id":3794,"date":"2009-06-19T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:34:43","slug":"the-early-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/06\/19\/the-early-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"The Early Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OMG, I haven&#8217;t got my child enrolled for preschool this fall! Nearly every other mother I know whose child is about to turn two has taken care of this. I haven&#8217;t since I thought we&#8217;d be moving and wanted to see where we&#8217;d be before I pursued this. <\/p>\n<p>Oh no. My child won&#8217;t be ready for kindergarten! (Never mind the fact that I never went to preschool, and I did just fine.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMG, I haven&#8217;t got my child enrolled for preschool this fall! Nearly every other mother I know whose child is about to turn two has taken care of this. I haven&#8217;t since I thought we&#8217;d be moving and wanted to see where we&#8217;d be before I pursued this. Oh no. My child won&#8217;t be ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humor","category-motherhood"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794","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=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4753,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions\/4753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}