{"id":88491,"date":"2021-06-26T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88491"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:29:40","slug":"coffee-and-change-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/coffee-and-change-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee and Change (Hour 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I reached into my billfold<br \/>\nto pay cash for coffee, black,<br \/>\nand reminisced about the days<br \/>\nwhen cash was the only currency.<\/p>\n<p>Or pen and ink \u2026<br \/>\ntypewriters,<br \/>\nrecord players.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the smell<br \/>\nof the coal-burning furnace<br \/>\nin my childhood home<br \/>\nand the excitement of delivery day<br \/>\nwith coal rumbling down into the coal bin.<\/p>\n<p>Trains on the track<br \/>\ngoing past our house.<br \/>\nCard catalogs.<br \/>\nEncyclopedias.<\/p>\n<p>The cashier hands me my change<br \/>\nnot knowing about my memories.<br \/>\nOr caring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reached into my billfold to pay cash for coffee, black, and reminisced about the days when cash was the only currency. Or pen and ink \u2026 typewriters, record players. I remember the smell of the coal-burning furnace in my childhood home and the excitement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88491","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94724,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88491\/revisions\/94724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}