{"id":48,"date":"2006-08-01T17:16:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T00:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/archives\/48"},"modified":"2006-08-08T07:07:57","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T14:07:57","slug":"an-enduring-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"An Enduring Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a post tonight for <em><a title=\"Markings \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Days of Her Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Trees\" target=\"_blank\">Markings<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0that caused me to create a new category, the &#8220;I Had a Pork Chop for Dinner&#8221; post. The image derives from a short story by Mona Simpson that I first read in 1995. Jenny, the troubled young protagonist, works in the mail room of her college, where she steals letters and packages:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But I take one letter a Saturday, I make it just one and someone I don&#8217;t know. And I keep &#8217;em and burn &#8217;em with a match in the bathroom sink and wash the ashes down the drain. I wait until the end of the shift. I always expect it to be something exciting. The two so far were just everyday letters, just mundane, so that&#8217;s all that&#8217;s new, I-had-a-pork-chop-for-dinner letters.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Mona Simpson, &#8220;Lawns&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a post tonight for Markings\u00c2\u00a0that caused me to create a new category, the &#8220;I Had a Pork Chop for Dinner&#8221; post. The image derives from a short story by Mona Simpson that I first read in 1995. Jenny, the troubled young protagonist, works in the mail room of her college, where she steals &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/?p=48\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Enduring Image<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/OpenPage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}