{"id":79,"date":"2006-12-30T19:54:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T03:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2006\/12\/the-mending-basket\/"},"modified":"2006-12-30T19:54:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T03:54:47","slug":"the-mending-basket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2006\/12\/the-mending-basket\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mending Basket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally published in LLL of Western Pennsylvania\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em> PennsyLLL Points West, <em>Spring 2000<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have a basket in the corner:<br \/>\nRipped jeans and sweaters,<br \/>\nShirts needing buttons,<br \/>\nShorts wanting seams,<br \/>\nCostumes needing trim.<br \/>\nPatches and spools,<br \/>\nThimbles and thread.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Colorful and rumpled<br \/>\nOverflowing<br \/>\nJumbled and soft;<br \/>\nI can reach in for a job<br \/>\nOf mending and fixing<br \/>\nIn spare mothering moments.<\/p>\n<p>But now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a job needing repair:<br \/>\nA miscarriage at six weeks.<br \/>\nI wish I could crawl into that basket<br \/>\nWhere someone could pick me up<br \/>\nAnd hold me close with a thimble,<br \/>\nStitching my frayed seams<br \/>\nPatching my broken heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in LLL of Western Pennsylvania\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s PennsyLLL Points West, Spring 2000 I have a basket in the corner: Ripped jeans and sweaters, Shirts needing buttons, Shorts wanting seams, Costumes needing trim. Patches and spools, Thimbles and thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}