{"id":6041,"date":"2010-12-17T18:47:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T01:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:53:42","slug":"inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/12\/17\/inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"My Brain Hurts Sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Bean asked, \u201cWhat is a symbol?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I tried to answer. A symbol is a small picture that represents a thing that has a certain meaning. The letter T for the \u201ct\u201d sound, for example. Words are symbols. A red light is a symbol, telling people to make their car stop at it, while a yellow light means to slow down and a green one to go. A logo \u2014 like the eagle on the side of the mail truck \u2014 is a symbol for the company that is called the U.S. Postal Service. A picture of a heart means love. Candy canes are symbols for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Then she asked, \u201cWhat is the symbol for the universe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wow! I told her there are many symbols \u2014 religious ones, scientific ones, artistic ones \u2014 but that the universe was sooooooo big that no one symbol can completely show what the universe is or means.<\/p>\n<p>That seemed to satisfy her for that moment. More stuff for that growing brain to think about!<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5269601587\/\" title=\"IMG_9497 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5169\/5269601587_0894775a85.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" alt=\"IMG_9497\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Bean asked, \u201cWhat is a symbol?\u201d I tried to answer. A symbol is a small picture that represents a thing that has a certain meaning. The letter T for the \u201ct\u201d sound, for example. Words are symbols. A red light is a symbol, telling people to make their car stop at it, while a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,25,28,34,16,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-education","category-humanities","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-science","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041","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=6041"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13554,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions\/13554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}