{"id":142135,"date":"2023-09-03T06:42:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T10:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=142135"},"modified":"2023-09-03T06:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T10:42:23","slug":"grace-hour-twenty-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/grace-hour-twenty-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace, Hour Twenty-Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grace<\/p>\n<p>One of the most graceful things I have ever<br \/>\nseen, began with a slice of pizza.<br \/>\nWhen I was young, I would watch old movies<br \/>\nafter coming home and before my parents<br \/>\narrived from work, losing myself in black<br \/>\nand white cinematic wonder.<\/p>\n<p>In one such movie, Sophia Loren was a noble<br \/>\nwoman, pretending to be a peasant,<br \/>\nhungry and alone.<br \/>\nShe met a child eating pizza,<br \/>\nscattering toppings everywhere<br \/>\nand scolded them for the waste they displayed.<\/p>\n<p>She demonstrated the proper manner<br \/>\nin which to eat a slice, first folding it over<br \/>\nupon itself, in essence a pizza sandwich.<br \/>\nThe lesson could not be imparted<br \/>\nso easily, and so naturally she had<br \/>\nto demonstrate again.<\/p>\n<p>I was fascinated with her hands,<br \/>\nthe easy movement she displayed<br \/>\nin such a simple act,<br \/>\npracticing the way she held them for weeks<br \/>\nafterward, intensely aware and ashamed<br \/>\nof my own awkwardness in the face of such grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace One of the most graceful things I have ever seen, began with a slice of pizza. When I was young, I would watch old movies after coming home and before my parents arrived from work, losing myself in black and white cinematic wonder. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142135","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142476,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142135\/revisions\/142476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}