{"id":442,"date":"2004-05-26T03:09:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T11:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/26\/a-father-chimes-in\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:38","slug":"a-father-chimes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/26\/a-father-chimes-in\/","title":{"rendered":"A Father Chimes In"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There was a time in my life when I thought I wouldn&#8217;t have children. The reasons were many, and made a great deal of sense to me then. I&#8217;m glad that I didn&#8217;t have children. But I&#8217;m so glad that we have Leta now. Yes, it&#8217;s the hardest thing I&#8217;ve ever done. When she cries and I&#8217;m watching her so Heather can sleep, there are those moments when the beauty fades and it&#8217;s like holding the most raw, unstable element (probably Lawrencium) without any protection from the long half-life of the isotope. It&#8217;s scary. The emotions of love and wonder have their opposites. Fury and rancor. I haven&#8217;t yet yelled at Leta, but I&#8217;ve come close. It&#8217;s a miracle that Heather can still love this baby after all the screaming she&#8217;s done while I&#8217;m at work (I hear it on the phone when Heather calls. Pretty much during every call).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurbomat.com\/archives\/2004\/04\/24\/gas_perm.html\">blurbomat<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time in my life when I thought I wouldn&#8217;t have children. The reasons were many, and made a great deal of sense to me then. I&#8217;m glad that I didn&#8217;t have children. But I&#8217;m so glad that we have Leta now. Yes, it&#8217;s the hardest thing I&#8217;ve ever done. When she cries [&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-442","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\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12925,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/12925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}