{"id":247,"date":"2020-12-13T20:07:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T01:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=247"},"modified":"2020-12-13T20:07:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T01:07:21","slug":"13-decembrance-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2020\/12\/13\/13-decembrance-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"#13 decembrance 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember one day when Zo\u00eb was a young teenager she and I went shopping at Target. When we were in the housewares department she told me that she couldn&#8217;t wait until she had her own apartment. When I asked her why she gleefully told me &#8220;because then I can buy cool, colorful plastic dishes.&#8221; I can happily report that when the time came setting up her first apartment she asked for some of our pottery for her kitchen. After a couple of moves she now has different sized bowls for oatmeal and ice cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/13-decembrance-2020-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/13-decembrance-2020-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/13-decembrance-2020-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/13-decembrance-2020-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/13-decembrance-2020-1536x1101.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/13-decembrance-2020-2048x1467.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/13-decembrance-2020-1200x860.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/13-decembrance-2020-1980x1419.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zen Boy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do you have<br>only one bowl?<br>I asked our son<br>helping him arrange <br>new kitchen cabinets<br>three plates<br>three mugs<br>three glasses<br>one bowl<br>a red oatmeal-<br>sized bowl<br>He smiled<br>I like<br>having only one bowl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212; Naomi Shihab Nye, in <em>Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners<\/em>, Greenwillow Books,  2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember one day when Zo\u00eb was a young teenager she and I went shopping at Target. When we were in the housewares department she told me that she couldn&#8217;t wait until she had her own apartment. When I asked her why she gleefully told me &#8220;because then I can buy cool, colorful plastic dishes.&#8221; [&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-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}