{"id":1488,"date":"2012-12-03T03:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T03:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2017-07-11T17:36:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T17:36:04","slug":"comfort-food-by-jean-varda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/comfort-food-by-jean-varda\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort Food by Jean Varda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/varda.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1495 lazyload\" title=\"varda\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/varda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"442\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/varda.jpg 489w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/varda-199x300.jpg 199w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 293px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 293\/442;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Comfort Food<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Jean Varda<\/p>\n<p>think of warm baked bread<br \/>\nmelting butter with crunchy crust<br \/>\nthink of casseroles one after the other<br \/>\ncoming out of the oven<br \/>\ndeserts baking steamy with<br \/>\nberries peaches custard whipped cream<br \/>\nthink of ice cream summer<br \/>\nhow it cools down your mouth<br \/>\ncoffee flavored chocolate chips<br \/>\nthink of salad<br \/>\nchopping radishes cucumber carrots<br \/>\ncrunch of romaine lettuce<br \/>\nadding chunks of cheese<br \/>\nsmell of vinegar and oil<br \/>\nthink of breakfast<br \/>\nscrambled eggs toast<br \/>\nhot tea jam home fries<br \/>\nmorning sun warming the table cloth<br \/>\nbreakfast served in cafes<br \/>\nthink of romantic evenings<br \/>\npasta and crunchy garlic bread<br \/>\nwine Parmesan cheese<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nJean Varda&#8217;s poetry has appeared in: The California Quarterly, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Illya&#8217;s Honey, Daybreak, The Lucid Stone, Poetry Motel, The Santa Fe Sun, Rive Guache, Manzanita, Poetry &amp; Prose of the Mother Lode &amp; Sierra, Avocet A Journal of Nature Poetry and Nurturing Paws by Whispering Angel Books. She has published 5 chapbooks of poetry, most recently, Carved from Light and Shadow, by Sacred Feather Press. She teaches a poetry writing class. MC.d three open mics and hosted a poetry radio show on KVMR Nevada City,CA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>think of warm baked bread<br \/>\nmelting butter with crunchy crust<br \/>\nthink of casseroles one after the other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}