{"id":1038,"date":"2006-06-22T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2006-06-22T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T15:34:00","slug":"1038","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-body entry-content\">\n<p><p><b><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande\">one more thing about my mother <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande\">my favorite recollection was when<br \/>she stuck her fingers in that cherry pie<br \/>(did it right there in front of the fluorescent-lit<br \/>deli section)<br \/>and pulled out two fat ones<br \/>gleaming red syrup<br \/>like movie prop stunt cum<br \/>sliding down her fingers<br \/>but never quite dripping<br \/>she held them up for some<br \/>imaginary live studio audience to inspect and approve<br \/>and with that sparkle of childlike glee in her eye<br \/>she slipped them into her purse <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande\">i asked her why she didn&#8217;t shoplift the whole damn pie<br \/>when her purse could fit a buick<br \/>and she said, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande\">&#8216;sometimes it&#8217;s the little things in life you have to appreciate&#8217; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande\">she patted me on the back<br \/>a tender<br \/>lingering touch <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande\">maternal almost <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande\">leaving two red trails that had the dog after me<br \/>for days before i thought to wash that sweater <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande\">this is my favorite memory of my mother<br \/>long before she started worrying about the things in her<br \/>head that rattled the bars and threatened to escape<br \/>and even longer before<br \/>the afternoon i came home from sunday school<br \/>to find my mother curled up on the closet floor<br \/>a bible in one hand and my father&#8217;s<br \/>ivory-handled pistol minus a single rusted bullet in the other. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: lucida grande\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"CLEAR: both\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one more thing about my mother my favorite recollection was whenshe stuck her fingers in that cherry pie(did it right there in front of the fluorescent-litdeli section)and pulled out two fat onesgleaming red syruplike movie prop stunt cumsliding down her fingersbut never quite drippingshe held them up for someimaginary live studio audience to inspect and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-1038","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}