{"id":17787,"date":"2016-08-13T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=17787"},"modified":"2016-08-13T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:36:10","slug":"grandmas-apron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/grandmas-apron\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandma&#8217;s Apron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrapped tight around<br \/>\nher full breast,\u00a0rounded belly.<br \/>\nThin cotton fabric\u00a0worn through<br \/>\nbreakfast, lunch, dinner prep.<br \/>\nPink and orange petaled flowers<br \/>\nscented with kielbasa and sauerkraut<br \/>\nand a clean, pungent salty sweat.<br \/>\nOur faces buried in it<br \/>\nshe hugged us each hello.<br \/>\n&#8220;Sit! Sit! It&#8217;s time to eat!&#8221;<br \/>\nA blur of cotton\u00a0and steam<br \/>\nfrom kitchen to table, &#8220;Just sit!&#8221;<br \/>\nEach plate piled high, the table filled<br \/>\nelbows jostling for room to dig in.<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh! The potatoes! Make room for potatoes!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd yet one more dish squeezed in<br \/>\nuntil finally she untied the apron<br \/>\nhung it unceremoniously<br \/>\non a nail in the door.<br \/>\nApron strings, frayed ends<br \/>\nswinging gently to rest.<\/p>\n<p>(Prompt: An End)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrapped tight around her full breast,\u00a0rounded belly. Thin cotton fabric\u00a0worn through breakfast, lunch, dinner prep. Pink and orange petaled flowers scented with kielbasa and sauerkraut and a clean, pungent salty sweat. Our faces buried in it she hugged us each hello. &#8220;Sit! Sit! It&#8217;s time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17938,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787\/revisions\/17938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}