{"id":4790,"date":"2009-08-19T10:14:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T17:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:40:27","slug":"inauspicious-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/08\/19\/inauspicious-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauspicious Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Husband is taking time off work. We were planning to go to Monterey for a couple nights &#8212; our first away from home with Bean &#8212; this week. Except Bean has a nasty cold with a cough, sneezes, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the water hose to our refrigerator broke and leaked everywhere last night. Though we rent the house, we own the fridge, so it&#8217;s our problem to fix.<\/p>\n<p>And I successfully cast on my first sock, only to find I&#8217;d dropped a stitch in the first row. So this will require frogging and starting over. <\/p>\n<p>None of these are huge crises, but they do set a tone for the vacation that we didn&#8217;t really want (but that&#8217;s not permanent). We may still decide to take our little trip, depending on how she seems tomorrow. She&#8217;s mostly cheerful and active, just with symptoms. We&#8217;ll have a repair guy come to fix the fridge. And casting on the sock again will be good practice for working with toothpick needles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Husband is taking time off work. We were planning to go to Monterey for a couple nights &#8212; our first away from home with Bean &#8212; this week. Except Bean has a nasty cold with a cough, sneezes, and so forth. Also, the water hose to our refrigerator broke and leaked everywhere last night. Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-recreation","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","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=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13634,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/13634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}