{"id":113866,"date":"2022-06-25T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113866"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:00:22","slug":"prompt-9-maxwell-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-9-maxwell-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 9, Maxwell House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep a jar of Maxwell house coffee that I&#8217;ve yet to open<br \/>\nand never intend to, unless in case of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The coffee serves a talismanic purpose, reminding me of<br \/>\nmy grandmother, who brewed a cup every morning before<br \/>\ntaking a bus from her shotgun-style house off Truman Rd<br \/>\nto her job sewing graduation gowns and funeral shrouds<br \/>\nfor a company that, like all that muslin, has disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>After retirement, she soon moved to another house,<br \/>\none rented to her by by aunt, but still drank her one<br \/>\ncup of instant Maxwell every morning before switching<br \/>\nto iced tea and water for the remainder of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I keep the jar, in case of emergency, and I may open it one<br \/>\nmorning before going to my own factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep a jar of Maxwell house coffee that I&#8217;ve yet to open and never intend to, unless in case of emergency. The coffee serves a talismanic purpose, reminding me of my grandmother, who brewed a cup every morning before taking a bus from her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113866","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114160,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113866\/revisions\/114160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}