{"id":8082,"date":"2014-01-06T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:44:56","slug":"fine-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2014\/01\/06\/fine-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The line between magical thinking and metaphor is razor thin. Walking to school this morning, Bean asked why we say frost was created by Jack Frost. I replied that before people understood the science behind it, we made up stories, and that humans like to give personalities to nature. She then stated, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in dumb stuff like Jack Frost. I don&#8217;t need to give natural events personalities. The earth is our mother and we are her children. She changes her outfits with the seasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And yes, she still believes in Santa and eagerly awaits the first visit of the Tooth Fairy. I love this age. So much to discover, and such possibilities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The line between magical thinking and metaphor is razor thin. Walking to school this morning, Bean asked why we say frost was created by Jack Frost. I replied that before people understood the science behind it, we made up stories, and that humans like to give personalities to nature. She then stated, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082","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=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13499,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/13499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}