{"id":136142,"date":"2023-09-02T19:42:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136142"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:42:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:42:36","slug":"the-recipe-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-recipe-box\/","title":{"rendered":"The Recipe Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Recipe Box<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The blue, wooden recipe box<\/p>\n<p>Was a summer project in 1964,<\/p>\n<p>When I was ten.<\/p>\n<p>Nailed together into a rectangle with<\/p>\n<p>Almost 90-degree corners,<\/p>\n<p>It held tried-and-true ways to make delicious meals:<\/p>\n<p>Watergate salad, corn pudding, popovers,<\/p>\n<p>Blueberry mace cake, banana pudding<\/p>\n<p>Ahh! The memories of those dishes make me salivate.<\/p>\n<p>The occasions waft through my mind:<\/p>\n<p>Pot-luck dinners, family events, company\u2019s-a-comin meals!<\/p>\n<p>No one was worried about carbs or fat.<\/p>\n<p>Microwaves, insta pots, and air fryers weren\u2019t even day dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Meals took time to make and were eaten at a table with conversations.<\/p>\n<p>What looked like a recipe box was really a time machine<\/p>\n<p>Capturing the flavors of family life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Herndon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Recipe Box &nbsp; The blue, wooden recipe box Was a summer project in 1964, When I was ten. Nailed together into a rectangle with Almost 90-degree corners, It held tried-and-true ways to make delicious meals: Watergate salad, corn pudding, popovers, Blueberry mace cake, banana&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136142","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\/5239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136225,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136142\/revisions\/136225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}