{"id":113735,"date":"2022-06-25T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113735"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:27:42","slug":"hour-nine-walnuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-nine-walnuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Nine &#8211; Walnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walnuts<\/p>\n<p>We used to crack walnuts at Christmas<br \/>\nand sometimes other nuts as well<\/p>\n<p>I remember the nut-filled turquoise bowl<br \/>\nsplatter-painted with the divided sections<br \/>\nWhatever happened to it?<\/p>\n<p>The metal nutcrackers were so hard to use<br \/>\nthe nuts slipping from the grasp of pudgy hands<\/p>\n<p>But the adults would help you if you asked<br \/>\naunts and uncles, parents and grandparents<\/p>\n<p>In those days we would all get together<br \/>\nand talk while we cracked walnuts at Christmas<\/p>\n<p>But the metal nutcrackers were so hard to use<br \/>\nand supermarkets sell them unshelled for you now<br \/>\nIsn\u2019t it just easier that way?<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t even eat nuts at Christmas anymore<br \/>\nI guess those old days are gone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walnuts We used to crack walnuts at Christmas and sometimes other nuts as well I remember the nut-filled turquoise bowl splatter-painted with the divided sections Whatever happened to it? The metal nutcrackers were so hard to use the nuts slipping from the grasp of pudgy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113735","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113759,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113735\/revisions\/113759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}