{"id":827,"date":"2005-03-26T15:01:37","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T23:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/03\/26\/how-do-i-write-this\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:22:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:22:57","slug":"how-do-i-write-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/03\/26\/how-do-i-write-this\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Write This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not panicked, but I&#8217;m pressed for time.  I have much to do today and tomorrow to tie up loose ends at home and work.  Why?  Because I&#8217;m flying to Houston Monday to be with my husband, and to see my father-in-law, who is dying.  He has fought for 13 months to survive blastoid mantle cell lymphoma.  It is a rare form of non-Hodgkins blood cancer, and the most aggressive form of it.  Survival is usually three to five years after diagnosis, at best.  He had a two-month remission.  It returned in various parts of his body in December and January; the treatment has been as hard on him as the illness.  <\/p>\n<p>My thoughts are scattered and thin.  It&#8217;s tax time and we are behind, and now this.  And there are work responsibilities I need to handle or find coverage for.  I am writing this as a means of anchoring myself as much as possible.  I&#8217;m not entirely <em>here<\/em> &#8212; in my body, in this place, in this moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not panicked, but I&#8217;m pressed for time. I have much to do today and tomorrow to tie up loose ends at home and work. Why? Because I&#8217;m flying to Houston Monday to be with my husband, and to see my father-in-law, who is dying. He has fought for 13 months to survive blastoid mantle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","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=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10814,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/10814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}