{"id":750,"date":"2005-01-31T21:21:58","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T05:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/01\/31\/cotton-club\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:22:17","slug":"cotton-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/01\/31\/cotton-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I am sick, my head feels as though it is jammed full of cotton &#8212; tight but soft inside.  My thoughts ooze and slosh around.  Every now and then I shake the earth with a sneeze &#8212; I never learned to explode daintily &#8212; and attempt to return my head to normalcy&#8230; at least , as normal as it can be in this condition.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not complaining, though.  My job is going well.  I&#8217;m gaining skill and finesse as I deal with students and staff.  The sun shines more often, and my brand-new Mac Powerbook accompanies me faithfully throughout the day.  What more could a junior geek want? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m stunned that tomorrow is February 1.  Already!  I wanted to do something to observe Imbolc on the 2nd, but I also have a full schedule that day (work until 8 p.m.), and so I&#8217;m uncertain as to what I might do.  Until my head feels less like a pressure cooker, I&#8217;ll let this question be.<\/p>\n<p>Ready for month two?  I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I am sick, my head feels as though it is jammed full of cotton &#8212; tight but soft inside. My thoughts ooze and slosh around. Every now and then I shake the earth with a sneeze &#8212; I never learned to explode daintily &#8212; and attempt to return my head to normalcy&#8230; at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaney"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12079,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/12079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}