{"id":140700,"date":"2023-09-03T03:52:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140700"},"modified":"2023-09-03T03:52:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:52:15","slug":"my-mothers-sambar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/my-mothers-sambar\/","title":{"rendered":"My mother&#8217;s &#8216;Sambar&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Hour 7<\/p>\n<p>Extra Terrestrial life is irrelevant<\/p>\n<p>Water on Moon, insignificant<\/p>\n<p>Time travel is immaterial<\/p>\n<p>The biggest mystery of my life is how to make &#8216;Sambar&#8217; like Mom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No matter how hard I tried<\/p>\n<p>No matter how I copy the ingredients<\/p>\n<p>No matter how I perfect the timings<\/p>\n<p>Just can&#8217;t make &#8216;Sambar&#8217; like her<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think my own Mom is bluffing me<\/p>\n<p>Not telling me the exact measures<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe the exact ingredients<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps she has altogether skipped some spices<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Enough is enough It&#8217;s time to confront her<\/p>\n<p>Get that recipe out of her<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mom, just give it already&#8221; I said<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the only thing that you connect with me&#8221; she said<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rashmi S Kurup<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 7 Extra Terrestrial life is irrelevant Water on Moon, insignificant Time travel is immaterial The biggest mystery of my life is how to make &#8216;Sambar&#8217; like Mom &nbsp; No matter how hard I tried No matter how I copy the ingredients No matter how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140700","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\/4602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140834,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140700\/revisions\/140834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}