{"id":5224,"date":"2009-12-13T15:27:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:34:28","slug":"tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/12\/13\/tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this gray, rainy day, I decided to play a little with the camera. The Christmas tree is an important feature in my holiday traditions. It&#8217;s the centerpiece of our celebration. I have more ornaments than I can put on our tree, so each year I get to choose which ones I&#8217;d like to enjoy. This straw maiden ornament was given me by my mother many years ago. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4182144935\/\" title=\"straw maiden by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2594\/4182144935_46e48a40d9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"straw maiden\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I made the peanut elf ornament (below) when I was a Brownie scout, so that means I&#8217;ve carried this with me for 40 years!! I even have a construction paper stocking I made in kindergarten, and a construction paper flame ornament from first grade, but this year I didn&#8217;t put them on the tree. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4182257321\/\" title=\"peanut elf by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2609\/4182257321_42815b22c2.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"peanut elf\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to Bean&#8217;s accrual of ornaments over the years, especially the ones she makes. Someday, I hope, she&#8217;ll have her own special tree. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this gray, rainy day, I decided to play a little with the camera. The Christmas tree is an important feature in my holiday traditions. It&#8217;s the centerpiece of our celebration. I have more ornaments than I can put on our tree, so each year I get to choose which ones I&#8217;d like to enjoy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-arts","category-motherhood","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224","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=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13617,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions\/13617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}