{"id":2255,"date":"2025-06-18T20:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2025-06-18T20:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:39:32","slug":"18-summer-shards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2025\/06\/18\/18-summer-shards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#18 summer shards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I pulled my garlic out of the garden yesterday. It is drying on old screens lined up on the porch, fists of flavor patiently waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18-summer-shards-2025-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18-summer-shards-2025-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18-summer-shards-2025-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18-summer-shards-2025-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18-summer-shards-2025-1536x995.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/18-summer-shards-2025-2048x1326.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Garlic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rabbi of condiments,<br>whose breath is a verb,<br>wearing a thin beard<br>and a white robe;<br>you who are pale and small<br>and shaped like a fist,<br>a synagogue,<br>bless our bitterness,<br>transcend the kitchen<br>to sweeten death\u2014<br>our wax in the flame<br>and our seed in the bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, my parents pray,<br>my grandfather sits,<br>my uncles fill<br>my mouth with ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014Bert Meyers, from <em>In a Dybbuk\u2019s Raincoat: Collected Poems<\/em>, University of New Mexico Press, copyright \u00a9 2007 by Bert Meyers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled my garlic out of the garden yesterday. It is drying on old screens lined up on the porch, fists of flavor patiently waiting. The Garlic Rabbi of condiments,whose breath is a verb,wearing a thin beardand a white robe;you who are pale and smalland shaped like a fist,a synagogue,bless our bitterness,transcend the kitchento sweeten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}