{"id":91571,"date":"2021-06-26T14:02:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91571"},"modified":"2021-06-26T14:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:02:03","slug":"the-alley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-alley-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Alley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My dad scraped carrots with an old thick knife,<\/p>\n<p>the blade heavy, the shaft crackled and rough.<\/p>\n<p>He loved carrots, being the son of a horse trader.<\/p>\n<p>I see him, a boy of ten, sharing a carrot with a bay mare.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t have a peeler. Neither of my parents<\/p>\n<p>needed one, my mom scraping carrots for chicken soup,<\/p>\n<p>my father for a Sunday afternoon snack. He&#8217;d hand me<\/p>\n<p>one with a soft, shy smile, just like my grandma&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>when she passed around a a jar of honey<\/p>\n<p>filled with <em>taglach<\/em>, strips of dough rolled into small baked nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>I chew my carrot, fuzzy from its scraping, and sit on our apartment&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>back porch where I watch the alley, the cars passing through<\/p>\n<p>between rows of trash cans, cats sitting on closed lids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alley &nbsp; My dad scraped carrots with an old thick knife, the blade heavy, the shaft crackled and rough. He loved carrots, being the son of a horse trader. I see him, a boy of ten, sharing a carrot with a bay mare. We&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91571","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\/1822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91872,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91571\/revisions\/91872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}