{"id":9075,"date":"2015-09-14T22:52:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T05:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=9075"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:30:43","slug":"sometimes-you-get-what-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2015\/09\/14\/sometimes-you-get-what-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes You Get What You Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when you&#8217;re eight, and you&#8217;re worried about people you love dying, and you feel small and vulnerable, and you&#8217;re congested and tired and not quite SICK sick but not feeling great, you start Monday saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for school! I can&#8217;t face it.&#8221; And sometimes Mommy listens to her intuition, and instead of worrying that she&#8217;ll set a bad example by saying yes to a day off, she decides instead to give her daughter a day of her full presence. To fill her bucket with cuddles on demand, silly hand games, book reading, exploring a tree in the front yard, and whatever she wants for dinner. And at the end of the day, when the girl turns out to have a low-grade fever, the mom feels vindicated for having followed her wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when you&#8217;re eight, and you&#8217;re worried about people you love dying, and you feel small and vulnerable, and you&#8217;re congested and tired and not quite SICK sick but not feeling great, you start Monday saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for school! I can&#8217;t face it.&#8221; And sometimes Mommy listens to her intuition, and instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075","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=9075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}