{"id":4931,"date":"2009-10-18T20:19:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T03:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=4931"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:55:19","slug":"pumpkin-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/10\/18\/pumpkin-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we went to the pumpkin farm a couple weeks ago, I decided not to buy big pumpkins. Bean picked out a teeny one for herself. Since literally no one comes to trick-or-treat at our house in this town home complex, I haven&#8217;t carved a pumpkin &#8212; especially since my last attempt (in 2007) ended up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/10\/30\/halloween-tip\/\">slashed thumb due to my overtired condition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I want Bean to have the fun of pumpkin carving and lighting, but I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m &#8220;up&#8221; for it yet; besides, she&#8217;s still young. The other day I saw pie pumpkins on sale, so I bought four for Bean to paint. It&#8217;s washable paint, which means after Halloween I can wash, bake, and puree them for pie (and for Bean, who really likes to eat plain pureed pumpkin).<\/p>\n<p>She is still a little under the weather &#8212; she got an ear infection in the past week &#8212; so she spent the day in jammies and stayed inside. Here are the results:<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4024280714\/\" title=\"painted pie pumpkins by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2766\/4024280714_43ae3495d3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"painted pie pumpkins\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we went to the pumpkin farm a couple weeks ago, I decided not to buy big pumpkins. Bean picked out a teeny one for herself. Since literally no one comes to trick-or-treat at our house in this town home complex, I haven&#8217;t carved a pumpkin &#8212; especially since my last attempt (in 2007) ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,214,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-domestic-arts","category-education","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931","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=4931"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13667,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions\/13667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}