{"id":14397,"date":"2015-06-14T00:45:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=14397"},"modified":"2015-06-14T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T13:58:55","slug":"remember-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/remember-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember (16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the little things that<br \/>\nmake up my personality.<br \/>\nAll those tiny tidbits<br \/>\nthat cling to my brain<br \/>\nlike cereal-box stickers<br \/>\non bedroom windows<\/p>\n<p>The telephone number<br \/>\nfrom my childhood home<br \/>\nthe patterns of the turning dial<br \/>\non the single rotary phone<br \/>\nat the desk in the dining room.<\/p>\n<p>The way grandmother smelled<br \/>\nlike mothballs and<br \/>\nburnt coffee and<br \/>\nSunday roast beef dinners and<br \/>\nBible school flannel graph lessons.<\/p>\n<p>The flash of fireflies on<br \/>\nmuggy summer evenings<br \/>\nin the Kansas summertime<br \/>\npeels of children&#8217;s laughter<br \/>\nas we filled jars with phosphorescence. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the little things<br \/>\nthat shine as silver threads in<br \/>\nthe quilt I am still stitching,<br \/>\nbringing comfort, continuity<br \/>\ncharacter to my waning days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the little things that make up my personality. All those tiny tidbits that cling to my brain like cereal-box stickers on bedroom windows The telephone number from my childhood home the patterns of the turning dial on the single rotary phone at the desk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[327,326,10],"class_list":["post-14397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-karnitz","tag-marathon","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397","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\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14435,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14397\/revisions\/14435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}