{"id":4285,"date":"2020-09-29T17:39:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T00:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2020-09-29T17:39:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T00:39:46","slug":"short-lived-joys-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/09\/29\/short-lived-joys-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Short-Lived Joys Of Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong><br \/>\nWhen I married at eighteen,<br \/>\na friend gave us The Joy of Cooking.<br \/>\nMy husband, nineteen, turned every page,<br \/>\nlooked at every recipe, writing, \u201cYes!\u201d \u201cTry!\u201d<br \/>\nor (for his mother\u2019s recipes) \u201cNo!\u201d<br \/>\nNever thinking of actually cooking something himself.<br \/>\nI wasn\u2019t sure whether to be annoyed or flattered,<br \/>\nbut the marriage lasted about a year. <\/p>\n<p>When I married at fifty-one,<br \/>\nwe compared copies of The Joy of Cooking.<br \/>\nMy husband\u2019s was in better repair,<br \/>\nso we gave mine to Goodwill.<br \/>\nHe likes cooking, so he does it. I wash the dishes.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been nine years now. We are still married. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Cheryl L. Caesar<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl lived in Paris, Tuscany and Sligo for 25 years; she earned her doctorate in comparative literature at the Sorbonne and taught literature and phonetics. She now teaches writing at Michigan State University.  Last year she published over a hundred poems in the U.S., Germany, India, Bangladesh, Yemen and Zimbabwe, and won third prize in the Singapore Poetry Contest for her poem on global warming. Her chapbook Flatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era is now available from Amazon and Goodreads. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I married at eighteen, a friend gave us The Joy of Cooking. My husband, nineteen, turned every page, looked at every recipe, writing, \u201cYes!\u201d \u201cTry!\u201d or (for his mother\u2019s recipes) \u201cNo!\u201d Never thinking of actually cooking something himself. I wasn\u2019t sure whether to be annoyed or flattered, but the marriage lasted about a year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9227,1464,9474,9473,41,1285,9472,552,73,3895,3340,266],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-cheryl-caesar","tag-cooking","tag-copies","tag-goodwill","tag-guest-contributor","tag-husband","tag-joys","tag-marriage","tag-mother","tag-recipe","tag-repair","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}