{"id":134113,"date":"2023-09-02T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134113"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:43:09","slug":"prompt-9-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-9-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 9:  preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>preservation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>hands stained with beet juice<\/p>\n<p>reminds me of Granny,<\/p>\n<p>learning at her elbow<\/p>\n<p>how to pickle all those veggies needed for winter<\/p>\n<p>from the days she learned from her granny<\/p>\n<p>when her father would bring elk to the house<\/p>\n<p>to feed the family,<\/p>\n<p>guts in buckets for the wild ones,<\/p>\n<p>jacket smelling of smoke from roll-your-owns,<\/p>\n<p>hiding the smell of blood with cinnamon<\/p>\n<p>baking with apples.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>these days,<\/p>\n<p>the ruddy dye brings a tremor to my heart<\/p>\n<p>to recall her and how much I miss her.<\/p>\n<p>(c) r. l. elke<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>preservation &nbsp; hands stained with beet juice reminds me of Granny, learning at her elbow how to pickle all those veggies needed for winter from the days she learned from her granny when her father would bring elk to the house to feed the family,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134113","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134214,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134113\/revisions\/134214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}