{"id":705,"date":"2005-01-02T21:47:22","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T05:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/01\/02\/the-point\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:21:55","slug":"the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/01\/02\/the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"The Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up with a saying I thought was just oh-so-sarcastic and funny.  When someone was beating a dead horse, so to speak, I would concede:  &#8220;Yes, you do have a point.  And if you comb your hair right and wear a hat, it won&#8217;t show!&#8221; This was always followed by a bit of chortling &#8212; by and large my own.<\/p>\n<p>As I was catching up on my favorite blogs today, I saw that <a href=\"http:\/\/katspaws.blogs.com\/kats_paws\/2005\/01\/the_point.html\">Kat<\/a> and her boyfriend were pondering The Big Question:  What is The Point? She wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And then he asked me what I thought the point was. I was feeling gentle when I told him that life is short. I believe that we are given opportunities all over the place and we meander through them picking and choosing what seems best at that moment. But mainly we&#8217;re here to enjoy life. It&#8217;s amazing. It&#8217;s beautiful. We&#8217;re here to have relationships with others, small and large. Small moments and life-long attachments. The stuff that ends up being the most meaningful is the little stuff that we so often take for granted. I told him not to worry so much, that everything would be ok. And it was another one of those moments when what I told him was what I so often need to hear myself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well put, dear Kat.  I raise my mug of tea to you.  I needed to hear this as well.  And by all means, leave your hair mussed and uncovered &#8212; I think this is a point worth seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up with a saying I thought was just oh-so-sarcastic and funny. When someone was beating a dead horse, so to speak, I would concede: &#8220;Yes, you do have a point. And if you comb your hair right and wear a hat, it won&#8217;t show!&#8221; This was always followed by a bit of chortling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12727,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/12727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}