{"id":15186,"date":"2024-03-15T02:30:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T00:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=15186"},"modified":"2024-03-15T13:32:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:32:14","slug":"poem-by-sharon-berg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=15186","title":{"rendered":"poem by Sharon Berg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Making Muffins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am making muffins,<\/p>\n<p>substituting some of the ingredients<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>which are not in my cupboard:<\/p>\n<p>cream cheese helping to round out butter,<\/p>\n<p>plums from a neighbour\u2019s tree<\/p>\n<p>chopped small and replacing blueberries.<\/p>\n<p>I also add some ingredients<\/p>\n<p>that may not be expected<\/p>\n<p>(sunflower and pumpkin seeds)<\/p>\n<p>giving texture to the mix.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am thinking about potential<\/p>\n<p>issues that might rise between us<\/p>\n<p>under the same roof, you being<\/p>\n<p>an early to bed and early to rise<\/p>\n<p>sort of man while I tend toward late<\/p>\n<p>evenings on the computer or TV.<\/p>\n<p><em>We can adjust the recipe,<\/em> I say,<\/p>\n<p><em>replacing one thing with another,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>adding in something fresh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you talking about us? <\/em>you ask.<\/p>\n<p><em>We can deal with that, even taking <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>shifts to sleep if we must. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This makes me smile as you<\/p>\n<p>indicate your willingness to take on<\/p>\n<p>all the complications of a shared life.<\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m talking about recipes,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I respond, <em>how they can be adjusted<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and still be called a success.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making Muffins &nbsp; I am making muffins, substituting some of the ingredients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[1681,77],"tags":[1682,1123,1700],"class_list":["post-15186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-79-80","category-english","tag-egophobia-79-80","tag-english","tag-sharon-berg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-3WW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15187,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions\/15187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}