{"id":113467,"date":"2022-06-25T17:46:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113467"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:46:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:46:22","slug":"elbow-macaroni-sustenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/elbow-macaroni-sustenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Elbow Macaroni Sustenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up happy, we regularly<\/p>\n<p>ate macaroni<\/p>\n<p>with cheese, or hamburger<\/p>\n<p>or summer vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A staple in the cupboard<\/p>\n<p>versatility in a box. filling our bellies.<\/p>\n<p>Mom gave the cheapest version<\/p>\n<p>the name that was most fun to say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Slum-gulligan rolled off our tongue<\/p>\n<p>verbally, with a smile,<\/p>\n<p>but stayed on the tongue<\/p>\n<p>just until swallowed.with another smile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That was macaroni with tomato sauce, because the<\/p>\n<p>fancy sauce was gone, and no more grocery dollars,<\/p>\n<p>and a can of corn for extra vitamins and extra filling for<\/p>\n<p>growing kids &#8211; a whole bunch of kids.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We liked that macaroni so much,<\/p>\n<p>that when pay checks were more plentiful,<\/p>\n<p>we insisted on keeping<\/p>\n<p>macaroni in the cupboard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Nancy Ann Smith,\u00a0 Poetry Marathon Prompt #9,\u00a0 June 25, 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up happy, we regularly ate macaroni with cheese, or hamburger or summer vegetables. &nbsp; A staple in the cupboard versatility in a box. filling our bellies. Mom gave the cheapest version the name that was most fun to say. &nbsp; Slum-gulligan rolled off our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[5216,5215],"class_list":["post-113467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-favorite-food","tag-macaroni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113993,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113467\/revisions\/113993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}