{"id":24,"date":"2009-04-11T20:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T03:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-05-08T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T22:27:49","slug":"hannah-donovans-granddaughter-makes-tamales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Donovan&#8217;s Great Granddaughter Makes Tamales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Barbara Sweeney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To soften them,<br \/>\nshe soaks corn husks<br \/>\nin the bathtub overnight.<br \/>\nShe grinds chilies to a brilliant paste<br \/>\nto fold with meat and masa<br \/>\ninto pale yellow packages<br \/>\ntied with tiny husk bows.<br \/>\nShe stacks them in her Saturday pot<br \/>\nlike rows of Spanish prayers<br \/>\nto the Sunday Virgin.<\/p>\n<p>On a bleached coast<br \/>\nhalfway around the world from Dublin,<br \/>\nher kitchen steams with maize, warms<br \/>\nher daughters, their hair<br \/>\nthe color of corn.<br \/>\n<em>Appeared in The Arroyo Arts Council<br \/>\n&#8220;Poetry in the Windows&#8221;<br \/>\nMay, 2003<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Sweeney To soften them, she soaks corn husks in the bathtub overnight. She grinds chilies to a brilliant paste to fold with meat and masa into pale yellow packages tied with tiny husk bows. She stacks them in her Saturday pot like rows of Spanish prayers to the Sunday Virgin. On a bleached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hannah_donovans","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}