{"id":91162,"date":"2021-06-27T05:33:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91162"},"modified":"2021-06-27T05:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:33:13","slug":"hour-21-ode-to-my-spice-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-21-ode-to-my-spice-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 21 &#8211; Ode to My Spice Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My spice cabinet, filled to the brim with sweet and savory magic, you are a wonder.<\/p>\n<p>The grinder and you have taught me to make my own masalas&#8211;chai, garam, Arab and Chinese five-spice. You open doors of the possible and make my cooking soar to summits I never knew possible.<\/p>\n<p>You give me confidence to measure by the spoonful. Not the wimpy sprinkling of my past cooking life, the bland life I had before I came to know you.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally one of your mismatched recycled jars escapes when nudged too far. If it&#8217;s plastic it will bounce delighted across the floor; if glass, it goes out with gusto and flair&#8211;filling the kitchen with aromatic joy for a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, spice cabinet, for filling my world with color, aroma, flavor, and beauty.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Wow, be sure to read this beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/preludemag.com\/issues\/2\/ode-to-shea-butter\/\"><em>Ode to Shea Butter<\/em> by Angel Nafis.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My spice cabinet, filled to the brim with sweet and savory magic, you are a wonder. The grinder and you have taught me to make my own masalas&#8211;chai, garam, Arab and Chinese five-spice. You open doors of the possible and make my cooking soar to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[271,4109,4751,4306,4146],"class_list":["post-91162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour-21","tag-mrsdkrebs","tag-ode-to-my-spice-cabinet","tag-poem-21","tag-poetrymarathon2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91162","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\/3549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101517,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91162\/revisions\/101517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}