{"id":244,"date":"2013-05-14T18:53:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T22:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newplum\/?p=244"},"modified":"2025-02-28T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:54:32","slug":"always-the-old-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/always-the-old-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Always, The Old House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother shows me my first yellow rose, pale \u2013 called <em>Moonlight Glow <\/em>\u2013<br \/>\nwhich she tends by the stone wall beyond the old, old house.<br \/>\nI shut tight my eyes to see us both in the afternoon light.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a tale of <em>Bereft <\/em>in that house which doesn\u2019t yet speak of Grandpa naked<br \/>\nin the garden, hosing off the sweat and grit of splitting wood. Look! There\u2019s my<br \/>\nmother in a red blouse stamping her foot, in tears by the kitchen door. She and<br \/>\nher father are both yelling.<\/p>\n<p>I tilt my head at the phoebe\u2019s call, cuss out woodchucks in the field<br \/>\nbefore <em>Bereft <\/em>catches up with me and slips its dry arm around my shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>Late summer cricket song and the cistern of spring water with its graniteware<br \/>\ndipper. The scent of apples being cored, chopped then stewed for applesauce<br \/>\nwhich my grandmother sprinkles with red-hots.<\/p>\n<p>Caught in the old walls, the thoughts of an only child crack the door open<br \/>\nand <em>Bereft <\/em>jumps up on the kitchen counter kicking restlessly until,<br \/>\nscolded, she slips down, walks stiffly away like any girl across the bright wooden floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother shows me my first yellow rose, pale \u2013 called Moonlight Glow \u2013 which she tends by the stone wall beyond the old, old house. I shut tight my eyes to see us both in the afternoon light. There\u2019s a tale of Bereft in that house which doesn\u2019t yet speak of Grandpa naked in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/always-the-old-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Always, The Old House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3604,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6875],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6875"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 07:48:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}