{"id":5411,"date":"2010-02-14T23:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T06:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:27:46","slug":"hunger-makes-the-best-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/02\/14\/hunger-makes-the-best-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Makes the Best Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the common wisdom says. Apparently everything tastes good to the hungry palate.<\/p>\n<p>But when sick, it&#8217;s hard to know one is hungry, because smell and taste are linked so closely; even a growling stomach feels muffled to some extent. Tonight I was able to taste my dinner. It was lovely.<\/p>\n<p>I can mostly breathe, smell, and taste again. Almost 100% back to healthy. <\/p>\n<p>And here is Bean, pretending to be a fire-breathing dragon. She&#8217;s become much more cooperative with the breathing treatments, especially if she has her father&#8217;s fancy phone to play plinky-plink on. Tomorrow we switch to the treatments being twice a day instead of every six hours. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4357767525\/\" title=\"a fire-breathing dragon by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4022\/4357767525_c0475d461a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"a fire-breathing dragon\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the common wisdom says. Apparently everything tastes good to the hungry palate. But when sick, it&#8217;s hard to know one is hungry, because smell and taste are linked so closely; even a growling stomach feels muffled to some extent. Tonight I was able to taste my dinner. It was lovely. I can mostly breathe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-motherhood","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411","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=5411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13602,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5411\/revisions\/13602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}