{"id":387,"date":"2004-05-05T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T17:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/05\/making-contact\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:12","slug":"making-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/05\/making-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In which Jen of What&#8217;s Brewing has <a title=\"What's Brewing: I beg your pardon, sir?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cupandsaucer.com\/blog\/archives\/002108.html\">a random conversation<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I chuckled at the encounter, yes.  But another thing that makes me smile is that this is a story about an effort to connect.  I relate.  Working out of my home is fairly insulating, and I&#8217;ve needed to become purposeful about interaction as I run errands.  Part of being truly present involves really absorbing what my eyes and ears encounter, and that is more likely to happen when I slow down enough to converse with people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which Jen of What&#8217;s Brewing has a random conversation&#8230; I chuckled at the encounter, yes. But another thing that makes me smile is that this is a story about an effort to connect. I relate. Working out of my home is fairly insulating, and I&#8217;ve needed to become purposeful about interaction as I run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12065,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/12065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}