{"id":117,"date":"2006-04-20T23:24:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T03:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/20\/philology-x\/"},"modified":"2006-04-21T20:29:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T00:29:06","slug":"philology-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/20\/philology-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Philology X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>stew.<\/p>\n<p>Savour the pungent lovely<br \/>\naromatic confluence of mingled<br \/>\nmeat and vegetables simmered<br \/>\nto lovely perfection<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Huck Finn preferred stew to<br \/>\nother fare cooked separately<br \/>\nand isolated on the plate<br \/>\nbecause stew tasted better<br \/>\n&#8220;the flavors sort of<br \/>\nswap around&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Thomas lovingly remembered<br \/>\na bubbling pot of &#8220;bruised potatoes&#8221;<br \/>\nat Christmas in Wales<\/p>\n<p>I recall as a seven year old<br \/>\nchild in war time in northern<br \/>\nOntario in ration book time<br \/>\nbeing invited out to dinner<br \/>\nby myself one afternoon<br \/>\nwhere the mother served<br \/>\na delicious meal that had<br \/>\ndelicately stewed beef<br \/>\nrare in ration times<br \/>\ninstead of the usual<br \/>\nkidneys or liver or no meat<br \/>\nI can still see the steaming<br \/>\nsavory clear broth on my plate<br \/>\npopulated by a pleasing melange<br \/>\nthe young fresh stewed carrots<br \/>\nthe small smooth white potatoes<br \/>\nall from her Victory Garden<br \/>\nand the lovely novel<br \/>\nbeef boiled until strands separated<br \/>\ntender and delicious satisfying meat<br \/>\nswapping around flavours<br \/>\nI think she wondered if I would like it<br \/>\nshe did not could not know<br \/>\nhow delightful this oasis of pleasure<br \/>\nhow I would treasure this simple meal<br \/>\nhow my seven year old&#8217;s perception<br \/>\nwould become paradigm<\/p>\n<p>stew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stew. Savour the pungent lovely aromatic confluence of mingled meat and vegetables simmered to lovely perfection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-philology","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}