{"id":10551,"date":"2020-08-25T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T21:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:28:23","slug":"instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2020\/08\/25\/instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/57314757\/in\/album-1241178\/\" title=\"pie porn IV: apple pie baked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/29\/57314757_f266458f23.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"pie porn IV: apple pie baked\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Poet\u2019s Occasional Alternative<\/strong><br \/>\nby Grace Paley<\/p>\n<p>I was going to write a poem<br \/>\nI made a pie instead&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;it took<br \/>\nabout the same amount of time<br \/>\nof course the pie was a final<br \/>\ndraft&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a poem would have had some<br \/>\ndistance to go&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;days and weeks and<br \/>\nmuch crumpled paper<br \/>\nthe pie already had a talking<br \/>\ntumbling audience among small<br \/>\ntrucks and a fire engine on<br \/>\nthe kitchen floor<br \/>\neverybody will like this pie<br \/>\nit will have apples and cranberries<br \/>\ndried apricots in it&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;many friends<br \/>\nwill say&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;why in the world did you<br \/>\nmake only one<br \/>\nthis does not happen with poems<br \/>\nbecause of unreportable<br \/>\nsadnesses I decided to<br \/>\nsettle this morning for a re-<br \/>\nsponsive eatership&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I do not<br \/>\nwant to wait a week&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a year&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a<br \/>\ngeneration for the right<br \/>\nconsumer to come along<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poet\u2019s Occasional Alternative by Grace Paley I was going to write a poem I made a pie instead&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;it took about the same amount of time of course the pie was a final draft&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a poem would have had some distance to go&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;days and weeks and much crumpled paper the pie already had a talking tumbling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,30],"tags":[151,61,169,229],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-quotes","tag-food","tag-life","tag-pie","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10553,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions\/10553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}