{"id":5843,"date":"2010-10-16T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T03:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5843"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:58:09","slug":"time-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/10\/16\/time-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Time For Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sick of my hair. Long (for me), hot, shaggy, all over the place, drab. So I changed it. Presto! New me, at least externally and above the neck. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5087778947\/\" title=\"kathryn 10\/14\/10 (no flash) by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4125\/5087778947_eecc76713b.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"500\" alt=\"kathryn 10\/14\/10 (no flash)\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I also dragged out the sewing machine finally, and figured out how to thread it. Bean says she wants to be a ghost for Halloween, so I made her a costume. Unfortunately, she won&#8217;t actually keep it on. It&#8217;s not that she doesn&#8217;t like it; she plays a came of &#8220;on and off.&#8221; But I did it. I&#8217;m so proud of myself. Do you know how hard it is to sew a curve, or a 60-inch circle? <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5088390226\/\" title=\"ghost costume by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4133\/5088390226_5455619fba.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"ghost costume\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m not sure she&#8217;ll wear the costume, I also bought her a witch had and black tutu, and I made her a little cape. So as a backup she can be a witch if she wants. And all this will go in the dress-up basket too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5088391484\/\" title=\"witch cape by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4090\/5088391484_89af90b5cf.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"witch cape\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sick of my hair. Long (for me), hot, shaggy, all over the place, drab. So I changed it. Presto! New me, at least externally and above the neck. I also dragged out the sewing machine finally, and figured out how to thread it. Bean says she wants to be a ghost for Halloween, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,214,34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-domestic-arts","category-motherhood","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843","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=5843"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13564,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843\/revisions\/13564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}