{"id":9182,"date":"2015-06-13T15:10:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2015-06-13T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:10:52","slug":"after-grandpa-died-hour-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/after-grandpa-died-hour-6\/","title":{"rendered":"After Grandpa Died, Hour 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this a rough draft.  An hour was not enough.<\/p>\n<p>After Grandpa Died<\/p>\n<p>We found the newspaper clipping in his wallet,<br \/>\nyellowed, creased, from a time when<br \/>\nmixed race women of African descent were called<br \/>\nmulatto wenches.<\/p>\n<p>The story?<br \/>\nThree women sold?<br \/>\nHow does this figure into Grandpa\u2019s story?<br \/>\nI always thought one of them was his mother,<br \/>\nbut the look on your face makes me think<br \/>\nof another possibility:<br \/>\nhis half sisters?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d always heard his mother was an Indian,<br \/>\nbut I never met her,<br \/>\nnever found her name on the Dawes\u2019 Roll.<br \/>\nMaybe I should let it go,<br \/>\nmake up my own story like you suggested.<\/p>\n<p>But I have a story&#8211;<br \/>\nGrandpa, on the porch whittling<br \/>\nMe, careful to avoid his spit can,<br \/>\nsinging along with him as he picked his guitar<br \/>\nor played his fiddle<br \/>\nHow he loved my beautiful grandma<br \/>\nand cornbread and buttermilk in a bowl.<br \/>\nAnd\u2026<br \/>\nthe clipping in his wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this a rough draft. An hour was not enough. After Grandpa Died We found the newspaper clipping in his wallet, yellowed, creased, from a time when mixed race women of African descent were called mulatto wenches. The story? Three women sold? How does this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9204,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions\/9204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}