{"id":64771,"date":"2020-06-27T12:56:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64771"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:56:48","slug":"mommys-cooking-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mommys-cooking-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy&#8217;s Cooking Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mommy\u2019s Cooking Soup<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Better Than Bouillon boils in the pot, waiting<\/p>\n<p>for Mommy to stir. She twists the spoon in her hand,<\/p>\n<p>grazing scraped metal, watching for the water<\/p>\n<p>to <em>pop!<\/em>, for the vegetables to rise and fall, waves<\/p>\n<p>raging against the sea, reaching for the sky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t tell her I hate the sound of the spoon<\/p>\n<p>crawling across the pot, metal on metal,<\/p>\n<p>sloshing the contents until they gurgle.<\/p>\n<p>I smile and nod, watch her stir, hover<\/p>\n<p>over the heat like it\u2019s her purpose in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mommy\u2019s Cooking Soup &nbsp; Better Than Bouillon boils in the pot, waiting for Mommy to stir. She twists the spoon in her hand, grazing scraped metal, watching for the water to pop!, for the vegetables to rise and fall, waves raging against the sea, reaching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64771","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65065,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64771\/revisions\/65065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}