{"id":5414,"date":"2010-02-15T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:27:30","slug":"a-future-we-can-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/02\/15\/a-future-we-can-change\/","title":{"rendered":"A Future We Can Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is competitive around here. It is everywhere, but I feel it especially here &#8212; in the play group, among other parents in general, especially when the topic of education comes up. Last year, four Gunn High School students in Palo Alto committed suicide by stepping in front of trains; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/ci_14257732?source=most_viewed\">already one child committed suicide the same way this year<\/a>. Granted, Palo Alto manifests &#8220;the best of the best&#8221; &#8212; affluent, highly educated, highly successful Silicon Valley players who want their children to succeed and exceed the norm. Not all school districts are as packed with scrambling over-achievers.<\/p>\n<p>We want a good school for Bean, but more than that, we want a good learning experience for her, and a <em>good life<\/em>. I want to see this movie when it comes out. And I want to be part of the solution.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/--zDyLGQYGk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/--zDyLGQYGk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t see the movie trailer, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=--zDyLGQYGk\">this link<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is competitive around here. It is everywhere, but I feel it especially here &#8212; in the play group, among other parents in general, especially when the topic of education comes up. Last year, four Gunn High School students in Palo Alto committed suicide by stepping in front of trains; already one child committed suicide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,25,217,34,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-education","category-meditation","category-motherhood","category-regional","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414","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=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13601,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions\/13601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}