{"id":229,"date":"2015-11-06T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2019-08-30T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T21:18:22","slug":"pie-a-love-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/pie-a-love-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Pie: A love letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-230 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11742673_890593387779_4840374394474981180_n.jpg\" alt=\"Blueberry Pie\" width=\"602\" height=\"602\" \/>I love pie. Don\u2019t you love pie? I think everyone loves pie.<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">(Ok, there\u2019s probably a few people who <em>don\u2019t<\/em> love pie. This is not a love letter for them.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pie, you make things right in the world.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something about methodically mixing butter and flour and water that gives you a moment to think.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s patience found in rolling out dough to perfection.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something soothing about smelling all the flavors blending together to make something infinitely greater.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something about the warmth of an oven on a cold fall day that is healing.<\/p>\n<h2>There\u2019s also something about sharing.<\/h2>\n<p>I love pie. Lately, though, I\u2019ve learned that more than pie, I love <em>sharing<\/em> pie. I love sharing everything <em>about<\/em> pie.<\/p>\n<p>I love watching someone enjoy a pie I\u2019ve made.<\/p>\n<p>I love teaching someone how to make pie.<\/p>\n<p>I love watching someone succeed in learning a new skill &#8211; the joy on their face when they take that first bite of a pie <em>they<\/em> made\u2026<\/p>\n<h2>Pie, you are priceless.<\/h2>\n<p>And I adore you.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-232\" src=\"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/11227524_900883341629_6567113843432552485_n.jpg\" alt=\"Pie Lattice\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love pie. Don\u2019t you love pie? I think everyone loves pie. (Ok, there\u2019s probably a few people who don\u2019t love pie. This is not a love letter for them.) Pie, you make things right in the world. There\u2019s something about methodically mixing butter and flour and water that gives you a moment to think. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,6,12,23,50],"tags":[68,69,48],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}