{"id":5242,"date":"2009-12-20T20:44:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T03:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:10:47","slug":"what-i-hope-to-tell-claire-when-shes-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/12\/20\/what-i-hope-to-tell-claire-when-shes-older\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Hope To Tell Bean When She&#8217;s Older"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I NEED TO KNOW, she wrote, using capital letters for emphasis. ARE YOU SANTA? TELL ME THE TRUTH.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do when your kid asks for the truth? You tell it, of course, doing your best to figure out a way that keeps at least some of the magic intact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cozi.com\/live-simply\/article\/2009\/12\/the-truth-about-santa.html\">The Truth About Santa<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cozi.com\/live-simply\/article\/2009\/12\/the-truth-about-santa.html\">entire post<\/a> for the sweet beauty of her answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I NEED TO KNOW, she wrote, using capital letters for emphasis. ARE YOU SANTA? TELL ME THE TRUTH. What do you do when your kid asks for the truth? You tell it, of course, doing your best to figure out a way that keeps at least some of the magic intact. &#8212;The Truth About Santa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,214,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-domestic-arts","category-motherhood"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242","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=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13447,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions\/13447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}