{"id":10674,"date":"2020-06-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10674"},"modified":"2020-06-28T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T21:26:38","slug":"great-great-grandmothers-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10674","title":{"rendered":"Great-Great Grandmother&#8217;s Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Artenara_Iglesia_de_San_Mathi\u00cc\u0081as_-_Krippe_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10676\"\/><figcaption>Saint Matthias parish church ( 1870 ) &#8211; Nativity scenes: Baking Bread.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beth Cato<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">this pie crust\nis not made with mere\nflour, salt, sugar, butter\nit's formed of words\na magic spell\nechoed in blue ink\non paper warped and stained\nI have the recipe memorized\nyet each time I prepare a pie\nI pull out the sheet\neach time, I read aloud\n\n\nto join a chorus of women\nsome voices I cannot identify\nthough my grandmother's\u00c2\u00a0\ncigarette-tinged rasp stands out\ntogether they scold me\nto trickle cold water\ninto the dry mixture\nto press pebbles of butter\nflat between my fingertips\nto mix everything together\nbut not to overwork it\n\n\nwhen people wonder\nwhy my pies taste much better\nthan the ones from the store\nI only say 'it's homemade'\nI must refrain\nfrom telling the truth\nthat they eat the artistry\nof a hundred years of ghosts\nthat my spirit, too\nwill gain immortality\nthrough pastry\n<\/font><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Cato this pie crust is not made with mere flour, salt, sugar, butter it&#8217;s formed of words a magic spell echoed in blue ink on paper warped and stained I have the recipe memorized yet each time I prepare a pie I pull out the sheet each time, I read aloud to join a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10762,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions\/10762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}