{"id":89,"date":"2008-06-19T18:57:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T08:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cuppagemma.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2019-01-06T18:40:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:40:48","slug":"86-street-with-gram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"86 street with Gram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Nectarines always seemed in season<br \/>\ntickling in you intensely, c&#8217;mon c&#8217;mon<br \/>\nlittle fruit shop made you want everything<br \/>\nescarole, tomatoes, soft plums, zucchini to fry<br \/>\neggplants saying, &#8220;Me too&#8221;, and sweet peppers<\/p>\n<p>The family pushed your bundle<br \/>\nacross the gray brown counter<br \/>\nworn from wooden slat pullers-<br \/>\nC shaped things like skee ball markers<br \/>\nwhich the girls used to avoid reaching all day<\/p>\n<p>Ringing you up on the register<br \/>\nwith little round numbers balanced<br \/>\non metal keys sticking up like<br \/>\nthe old man&#8217;s grin as he tap typed<br \/>\nspinning white on black numbers<\/p>\n<p>Then dash quick from the smell<br \/>\nof ice with fish, &#8220;Scallops?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Filet. Pound and a half today.&#8221;<br \/>\nheavy wax paper, cold parcels<br \/>\nblack crayon, white tile everywhere wet<\/p>\n<p>Next the butcher, proud owner<br \/>\nof a waist like a Buick but<br \/>\nhidden behind his hanging cheeses,<br \/>\npushing their scent against<br \/>\ncareless mounds of fresh sawdust<\/p>\n<p>Bakery last, cheese cake, maybe<br \/>\nbutter cookies, sometimes. But<br \/>\nalways timed the walk to meet<br \/>\nthe line for fresh braided semolina<br \/>\nor 3 plain long loaves for $1<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Cept now the pizza&#8217;s just out<br \/>\nso stop for a slice, say hello,<br \/>\nget some zeppole intended for later<br \/>\ndipping fingers in powdered sugar,<br \/>\nolive oil before we ripped into the dough <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nectarines always seemed in season tickling in you intensely, c&#8217;mon c&#8217;mon little fruit shop made you want everything escarole, tomatoes, soft plums, zucchini to fry eggplants saying, &#8220;Me too&#8221;, and sweet peppers The family pushed your bundle across the gray brown counter worn from wooden slat pullers- C shaped things like skee ball markers which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sidewalk-stories-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}