{"id":5668,"date":"2010-07-27T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:17:54","slug":"mail-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/07\/27\/mail-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want Bean to have a mailbox for pretend play (inspiration came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notimeforflashcards.com\/2009\/06\/watch-out-cliff-clavin.html\">No Time For Flash Cards<\/a>), but we don&#8217;t need yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toysrus.com\/product\/index.jsp?productId=2316864&#038;CAWELAID=107509576\">plastic toy around<\/a>, and I could use the money on something else. Besides, any day we use paint is considered a good day according to Bean. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So I dug out a shoebox, and Bean painted it. Blue blue blue! I painted on the word, then gave it a coat of Mod-Podge to seal it. Voila! <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4835759554\/\" title=\"toy mailbox by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4109\/4835759554_3b90ee2579.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" alt=\"toy mailbox\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want Bean to have a mailbox for pretend play (inspiration came from No Time For Flash Cards), but we don&#8217;t need yet another plastic toy around, and I could use the money on something else. Besides, any day we use paint is considered a good day according to Bean. \ud83d\ude42 So I dug out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,25,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-arts","category-education","category-motherhood","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668","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=5668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13580,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions\/13580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}