{"id":1394,"date":"2018-11-18T12:46:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T12:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2018-11-18T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T12:49:08","slug":"south-jersey-windfall-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"South Jersey, windfall apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Thanksgiving season I\u2019ve been thinking about childhood summers at my late grandmother&#8217;s place. Remembering her too, of course, but my thoughts of her, while loving, are complicated and separate from my recollections of her South Jersey home. There are never any relatives in evidence when I revisit those summers; my life is private and free from anxiety or oppression. Even now, in my real life, I instinctively surround myself with those Jersey sights and smells. I was content there, in the quiet presence of typical country things:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC01285-andrew-leahey-CC-BY-SA-2.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1393\" src=\"http:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC01285-andrew-leahey-CC-BY-SA-2.0-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Windfall apples and a mulberry tree<br \/>\nTomato leaves and pine needles when you rub them and smell your fingers<br \/>\nDill growing in the sun<br \/>\nSheep and hogs (I can recognize them by smell alone even today)<br \/>\nHorses, tack, and manure<br \/>\nBirdbaths surrounded by zinnias<br \/>\nBox turtles, and cattails by the lake<br \/>\nQueen Anne\u2019s lace, rose of Sharon, moss rose<br \/>\nDecrepit barns and roadside hamburger stands<br \/>\nFootpaths through the woods with orange shotgun shells on damp mulch<br \/>\nChickens and turkey buzzards, cardinals and blue jays<br \/>\nMonarch and tiger swallowtail butterflies, Japanese beetles, fireflies<br \/>\nA cement front porch<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Okay, turkey, too. And a wonderful stuffing.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dianne-Rosete-Thanksgiving-Day-Turkey-CC-BY-ND-2.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1392 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Dianne-Rosete-Thanksgiving-Day-Turkey-CC-BY-ND-2.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have a wonderful holiday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MM<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(NOTE regarding Worthy of This Great City: before buying the book please read the Reader Alert on the Home Page, then the full Prologue on the Excerpts page. Or else don&#8217;t blame me.)<\/p>\n<p>Photo credits:\u00a0Dianne Rosete, Thanksgiving Day Turkey CC BY-ND 2.0 \/\u00a0DSC01285 andrew leahey CC BY-SA 2.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Thanksgiving season I\u2019ve been thinking about childhood summers at my late grandmother&#8217;s place. Remembering her too, of course, but my thoughts of her, while loving, are complicated and separate from my recollections of her South Jersey home. There are never any relatives in evidence when I revisit those summers; my life is private and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[211,209,210],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog","tag-grandmother","tag-south-jersey","tag-thanksgiving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asmikemiller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}