{"id":6566,"date":"2011-06-09T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:42:20","slug":"we-all-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2011\/06\/09\/we-all-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"We All Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an ice cream truck that rolls through our neighborhood at a speed that makes it impossible to catch if we&#8217;re inside or the back yard. We&#8217;ve pretty much given up on it. There&#8217;s a man who walks through our neighborhood with a cart and a bell, whom we usually can reach in time. But yesterday we didn&#8217;t dash out at the first sound of his bell; by the time we did, he was well down the street &#8212; beyond shouting distance. Bean was sad. We drove around a few minutes to see if we could find him (my suggestion, I thought we&#8217;d succeed). When we couldn&#8217;t find him, Bean dealt with her sadness by suggesting we make a stop sign for the ice cream guys. She painted the sign (including the edge) and I painted the words:<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5814054366\/\" title=\"letting the ice cream man know what we want by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3318\/5814054366_2dddd0fa6e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"letting the ice cream man know what we want\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Now we&#8217;d best be ready to follow through!<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tis the season for daisies&#8230; At the park yesterday, Bean ran up to me with both hands overflowing. I love being a mother!<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5814048328\/\" title=\"flowers from Bean by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5033\/5814048328_949b10ee27.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"flowers from Bean\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an ice cream truck that rolls through our neighborhood at a speed that makes it impossible to catch if we&#8217;re inside or the back yard. We&#8217;ve pretty much given up on it. There&#8217;s a man who walks through our neighborhood with a cart and a bell, whom we usually can reach in time. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,34,16,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-recreation","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566","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=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13530,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions\/13530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}