{"id":9094,"date":"2015-10-17T12:22:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T19:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=9094"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:30:42","slug":"it-had-to-happen-sometime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2015\/10\/17\/it-had-to-happen-sometime\/","title":{"rendered":"It Had to Happen Sometime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, my husband and daughter joined a program sponsored by the YMCA, called Adventure Guides. It&#8217;s a father-child activity. In this case, it&#8217;s fathers and daughters. They have meetings, do crafts, play games, and <em>go camping<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Right now, for the <em>first time<\/em> in eight years, I am at home &#8212; <strong>alone.<\/strong> For two nights! I&#8217;ve been away for a couple nights before, and that&#8217;s great and all&#8230; but being able to stay home uninterrupted for 48 hours is a luxury. So, what am I doing with this time? Creating. More specifically, I&#8217;m playing with acrylic paint and various techniques. It&#8217;s <em>bliss<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/21630820044\/in\/dateposted-ff\/\" title=\"alonetime\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5828\/21630820044_bde6326823_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"243\" alt=\"alonetime\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Using the floor! Gettin&#8217; down!<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/21630818074\/in\/dateposted-ff\/\" title=\"autumn trees\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5674\/21630818074_5d951d0eeb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" alt=\"autumn trees\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Autumn Trees \/ 18&#8243; x 24&#8243; impasto acrylic on stretched canvas<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/22230933306\/in\/dateposted-ff\/\" title=\"greenabstract\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5745\/22230933306_690c086ef9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"greenabstract\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Green Abstract \/ 18&#8243; x 24&#8243; impasto acrylic on stretched canvas<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/22257100705\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"paintplay\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5753\/22257100705_522f220c37_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"204\" alt=\"paintplay\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>In progress<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, my husband and daughter joined a program sponsored by the YMCA, called Adventure Guides. It&#8217;s a father-child activity. In this case, it&#8217;s fathers and daughters. They have meetings, do crafts, play games, and go camping. Right now, for the first time in eight years, I am at home &#8212; alone. For two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094","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=9094"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9107,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions\/9107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}