{"id":8278,"date":"2014-02-05T20:40:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T04:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=8278"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:31:14","slug":"before-putting-the-nail-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2014\/02\/05\/before-putting-the-nail-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Putting the Nail In"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It\u2019s pretty much impossible to feel anger at someone for driving too slowly in front of you in traffic when you\u2019ve just come from sanding your own coffin. Coveting material objects, holding on to old grudges, failing to pause and see the grace in strangers \u2014 all equally foolish. While the coffin is indeed a reminder of what awaits us all, its true message is to live every moment to its greatest potential.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Jeffrey M. Piehler, <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1fkM2OV\">Ashes to Ashes, But First, a Nice Pine Box<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s pretty much impossible to feel anger at someone for driving too slowly in front of you in traffic when you\u2019ve just come from sanding your own coffin. Coveting material objects, holding on to old grudges, failing to pause and see the grace in strangers \u2014 all equally foolish. While the coffin is indeed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278","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=8278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8278\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}