{"id":5621,"date":"2010-06-07T16:32:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:20:29","slug":"ordinary-life-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/06\/07\/ordinary-life-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordinary Life = Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four days after our move, our washer went kaput (after 12 years of faithful service). This occurred on a day that Bean decided to try to, erm, clean up her poopy diaper while in her crib for a nap. So, Husband did fast research on Consumer Reports, and we went to Sears. We now have a high-efficiency washer and matching dryer! In the video below, Bean demonstrates the attitude that I try to live by as written about by my friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karenmaezenmiller.com\/books\">Karen Maezen Miller<\/a> of Cheerio Road. <\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=5d7c844672&#038;photo_id=4676123717&#038;flickr_show_info_box=true\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=5d7c844672&#038;photo_id=4676123717&#038;flickr_show_info_box=true\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four days after our move, our washer went kaput (after 12 years of faithful service). This occurred on a day that Bean decided to try to, erm, clean up her poopy diaper while in her crib for a nap. So, Husband did fast research on Consumer Reports, and we went to Sears. We now have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,214,217,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-domestic-arts","category-meditation","category-motherhood"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621","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=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13585,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions\/13585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}