{"id":39564,"date":"2017-08-05T22:52:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T02:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39564"},"modified":"2017-08-05T22:52:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T02:52:04","slug":"hour-fourteen-list-of-ten-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-fourteen-list-of-ten-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Fourteen, List of ten words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preservation<\/p>\n<p>My children and I picked<br \/>\nthe last of the tomatoes<br \/>\none late September afternoon<br \/>\nshortly before my marriage<br \/>\nto their father fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>The frogs sang their syncopated<br \/>\nmelody in the silvered twilight<br \/>\nof the emptied garden as the evening<br \/>\nwound down to bath and bed.<\/p>\n<p>Steam rose from the water boiling<br \/>\non the stove, and I prepped the red<br \/>\nfruits to preserve them and feed us<br \/>\nsauces, chili, soups, and stews<br \/>\nthrough winter&#8217;s upcoming chill.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery of preservation,<br \/>\nof feeding those most beloved to me<br \/>\nthrough harshness and despair<br \/>\nnever failed to amaze and sustain me.<\/p>\n<p>I plunged their red roundness into<br \/>\nfirst boiling water, then cold, peeling<br \/>\naway and discarding the unnecessary<br \/>\nskin to reveal the tender flesh beneath,<br \/>\npiling them in their juicy fullness into jars<br \/>\nto savor another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preservation My children and I picked the last of the tomatoes one late September afternoon shortly before my marriage to their father fell apart. The frogs sang their syncopated melody in the silvered twilight of the emptied garden as the evening wound down to bath&#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-39564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39564","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=39564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39606,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39564\/revisions\/39606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}