{"id":8046,"date":"2013-11-23T23:13:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T07:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=8046"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:45:36","slug":"one-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2013\/11\/23\/one-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"One Detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I dyed my hair purple for the first time five months ago, I did it for myself. I was turning 50, and I wanted to mark the occasion. Since that time, I&#8217;ve reapplied the dye three times. It starts out dark purple and fairly quickly fades to a fuchsia color. I knew it would make me stand out in a crowd. What I didn&#8217;t know was the good it would do.<\/p>\n<p>I have only ever received compliments and sometimes rave reviews about my hair. Never a negative word. This comes from construction workers driving by, shouting out, &#8220;Love your hair!&#8221; And from grandmothers who touch my shoulder and smile and say the same thing. Little kids smile and ask why I have purple hair. I answer that I had a big birthday and wanted a party on my head. Adults also asked why I colored it. Sometimes I give them the straight answer; other times I say that I woke up on my 50th birthday, and my hair had turned purple. Last week in a museum restroom, as I washed my hands, a woman waiting said she loved my hair. She said, &#8220;It makes me happy!&#8221; Walking to school with Bean one morning, a young man passed us and said hi and &#8220;Love your hair.&#8221; I said thanks, and a few steps later he stopped and turned, adding &#8220;Your hair just made my morning.&#8221; I replied that I was happy to have been able to do that. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting experience for a fairly introverted person receive as much attention as I&#8217;ve gotten. It pleases me, of course, yet it also pulls me into the world, into connection with people, which I am often reluctant to do. But wait, there&#8217;s more! It seems as though having a colorful head does something else. It genuinely pleases others. It inspires joy in others. It adds a little color to the world. Goodness knows we can all benefit from more joy and color. I&#8217;ve jokingly said that it&#8217;s my ministry. One detail changed. So much good fun.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/10602894014\/\" title=\"kathrynharper2 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5524\/10602894014_a4f7e2b86a_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" alt=\"kathrynharper2\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I dyed my hair purple for the first time five months ago, I did it for myself. I was turning 50, and I wanted to mark the occasion. Since that time, I&#8217;ve reapplied the dye three times. It starts out dark purple and fairly quickly fades to a fuchsia color. I knew it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-spirit"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046","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=8046"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13500,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8046\/revisions\/13500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}