he had a name \u2013
\nArnold, from the TV show, Green Acres;
\nhe was a black and white pig that just came
\nwalkin\u2019 on our place when I was about
\nnine years old;
\nmy Grandparents built him a pen and
\nfed him every day,
\nthings that smelled bad but that pig
\nwould gobble up that slop that
\nmade me want to puke.<\/p>\n
He grew. He matured. We were poor.
\nHog killin\u2019 day came and I remember
\ngoing to Arnold\u2019s pen early the morning
\nof his death \u2013
\nI talked to him like he was my best friend\u2026
\nthe next thing I remember is the red puddle
\nleft where he used to live and my family
\nprocessing this sow into winter provisions.
\nI couldn\u2019t eat pork for two years, fearing I may
\nconsume some part of Arnold.<\/p>\n
Michellia D. Wilson 8\/14\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
he had a name \u2013 Arnold, from the TV show, Green Acres; he was a black and white pig that just came walkin\u2019 on our place when I was about nine years old; my Grandparents built him a pen and fed him every day, things…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27928,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577\/revisions\/27928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}