{"id":19276,"date":"2024-11-01T15:02:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=19276"},"modified":"2024-11-06T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:13:59","slug":"how-i-learn-to-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/19276","title":{"rendered":"HOW I LEARN TO GARDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bring out dem shears fo\u2019 me baby<\/em>, she\u2019d say, amongst the sticky July. water<br \/>\nmelons and beefsteak tomatoes ripe in the multitudes. memoirs rooted<\/p>\n<p>in soil in squash in shallots and butta beans. my cornbread is her<br \/>\ncornbread at the rocking chair as <em>General Lee<\/em> outruns <em>Boss Hog<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her favorite pastime I inherit. Salt and pepper on beefsteak tomatoes<br \/>\nin the evening as the cicadas croon from their lungs like David<\/p>\n<p>Ruffin bellowing from the tv. I watch her smitten over <em>Motown<\/em><br \/>\nhits while shucking corn fresh from the harvest. In October<\/p>\n<p>she\u2019d say, <em>baby I sure can go fo\u2019 sum collards<\/em>. A bushel<br \/>\nin the colander. washing. cutting. rolling. cutting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Grab me dat fatback ova there, baby<\/em>, she\u2019d say, as the kitchen<br \/>\nconjures up an apparition I still see in her garden, just me and her<\/p>\n<p><em>And the month of May. I guess you\u2019d say<\/em><br \/>\n<em>What can make me feel this way? My girl\u00a0 \u00a0My girl<\/em><\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/19115\">Rodrick Minor<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring out dem shears fo\u2019 me baby, she\u2019d say, amongst the sticky July. water melons and beefsteak tomatoes ripe in the multitudes. memoirs rooted in soil in squash in shallots and butta beans. my cornbread is her cornbread at the rocking chair as General Lee outruns Boss Hog. Her favorite pastime I inherit. Salt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[82,1],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-50U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19332,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276\/revisions\/19332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}