{"id":9459,"date":"2016-11-09T21:24:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T05:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=9459"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:14:27","slug":"grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2016\/11\/09\/grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything I tried to create this morning went wrong. I couldn&#8217;t step into flow. I was agitated and disgusted with election results. A couple of snarky comments on my Facebook feed by two &#8220;friends&#8221; didn&#8217;t help. Their candidate won, and they showed no attempt to understand why I took the loss so deeply. I try to rise above base reactions, but at the end of the day, I decided to &#8220;unfriend&#8221; them. I took care of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>After I left the failed attempts to make art this morning, I returned in the afternoon. I managed to get a little something made, and it was good to find the flow and lose myself in it. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/30797925081\/in\/dateposted-friend\/\" title=\"six little fish \/ 5&quot; x 7&quot; canvas with acrylic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5537\/30797925081_6acdeea226.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" alt=\"six little fish \/ 5&quot; x 7&quot; canvas with acrylic\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><center>Six Little Fish \/ 5&#8243; x 7&#8243; canvas with acrylic<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything I tried to create this morning went wrong. I couldn&#8217;t step into flow. I was agitated and disgusted with election results. A couple of snarky comments on my Facebook feed by two &#8220;friends&#8221; didn&#8217;t help. Their candidate won, and they showed no attempt to understand why I took the loss so deeply. I try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459","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=9459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9461,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions\/9461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}