{"id":23109,"date":"2016-08-13T18:37:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23109"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:37:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:37:05","slug":"dinner-at-michelle-and-anthonys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/dinner-at-michelle-and-anthonys\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner at Michelle and Anthony\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First family gathering at the new house. First house.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Sinatra and Italian opera playing through the television.<\/p>\n<p>Stories about renovating, cleaning, patching, painting.<\/p>\n<p>Turning a house with potential into a home.<\/p>\n<p>Dave and Ronnie, Ronnie\u2019s sister and her sweet daughter, Rich and me.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony, Michelle, and 3 year old Castiel. We call him Pete,<\/p>\n<p>Running, giggling and squealing around the table.<\/p>\n<p>Playful stories and recollections of<\/p>\n<p>Antics and sibling pranks.<\/p>\n<p>Cheese for every taste. Gluten-free crackers for actual Celiacs.<\/p>\n<p>Vegetables and fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Huge platters of steak, sausage, chicken, and shrimp.<\/p>\n<p>Flour-free dessert.<\/p>\n<p>Tasty Vignole wine from Oklahoma,<\/p>\n<p>Carried to New Jersey for such an occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Enough food to feed the whole block.<\/p>\n<p>Enough affection to feed the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Huge plates of love and happiness that only appear<\/p>\n<p>With the feeling of belonging, that is Family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Sue Storts<\/p>\n<p>08\/13\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; First family gathering at the new house. First house. Frank Sinatra and Italian opera playing through the television. Stories about renovating, cleaning, patching, painting. Turning a house with potential into a home. Dave and Ronnie, Ronnie\u2019s sister and her sweet daughter, Rich and me&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23639,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23109\/revisions\/23639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}