{"id":9736,"date":"2018-08-07T09:46:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=9736"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:22:07","slug":"gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2018\/08\/07\/gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fatigue and pain in my body, despite the washing machine <em>and<\/em> the dishwasher being broken, despite the state of our country and the earth, I felt flooded with gratitude this morning as I took Bean to art camp for the day. I&#8217;m grateful for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>coffee, brewed strong and black<\/li>\n<li>friends with kids who are willing to help fetch each other&#8217;s kids and take them places (it takes a village)<\/li>\n<li>my husband&#8217;s reliability and humor<\/li>\n<li>my daughter, who works so hard to find her way these days<\/li>\n<li>the means to afford the repair bills, the art camp, the groceries<\/li>\n<li>the spirit of animals, a chance to connect with pure consciousness<\/li>\n<li>political resistance and the freedom to act<\/li>\n<li>a chance to cherish life and death, creation, destruction, and renewal<\/li>\n<li>all the mysteries of existence, the unanswered questions, and the chance to sit with not knowing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/28179536757\/in\/album-72157696776169351\/\" title=\"DSC07222\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1788\/28179536757_6130a35a70.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"427\" alt=\"DSC07222\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fatigue and pain in my body, despite the washing machine and the dishwasher being broken, despite the state of our country and the earth, I felt flooded with gratitude this morning as I took Bean to art camp for the day. I&#8217;m grateful for: coffee, brewed strong and black friends with kids who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,34,16,3,219],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-9736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","category-motherhood","category-nature","category-science","category-spirit","tag-gratitude"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736","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=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13463,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions\/13463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}