{"id":247,"date":"2020-01-22T20:17:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T04:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/?p=247"},"modified":"2020-01-22T20:17:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T04:17:23","slug":"stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/2020\/01\/22\/stew\/","title":{"rendered":"Stew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo credit:\u00a0https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/french-street-photography-rene-maltete\/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

15 minute free write using this photo and the word “stew.”*<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019d been hitting the sauce quite a bit recently.  Such a cute phrase for an unmanageable\naddiction to her beverage of choice \u2013 vodka. \nIt wasn\u2019t that she loved vodka all that much. But she loved getting\nsauced, and she loved the fact that vodka mixed with almost anything. It was\nperfect with juice for breakfast (screwdrivers! greyhounds!). She could mix it\nwith her lunchtime tonic water, or add it into her dinner drink \u2013 if her\nhusband didn\u2019t insist on wine instead.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there were signs that it wasn\u2019t going so well, all this\nsauciness.  For starters, her children\nhad stopped asking her to help with school projects. In fact, they\u2019d asked her\nnot to volunteer for the school music show. Something about how last year they\nhad too many volunteers, and how this year the school would be reaching out to\nlet her know what else should could help with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And her husband had begun to tell her to \u201cSlow down, for\nChrist\u2019s sake!<\/strong>\u201d Just as he had the\nother day, when she\u2019d picked him up from work. \nShe hadn\u2019t thought he\u2019d be done so early, and she\u2019d just finished her\nmid-afternoon pick-me-up, a vodka martini because, hey, why not? So she\u2019d been\nrunning late, driving fast, and when he\u2019d gotten in the car, she\u2019d hit the gas\nthe way she\u2019d hit the vodka at lunch \u2013 slamming it down and looking forward to\nthe ride. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she hadn\u2019t looked carefully and had jumped out into the\nmiddle of traffic and gotten broadsided by an oncoming car. Thankfully her\nhusband, who had been on the passenger side, hadn\u2019t been injured, but the door\nwas crushed.  And somehow she had\nsustained a broken wrist\u2013 from hitting the steering wheel?  From trying to stop herself with her hands?\nShe really had no recollection of the injury herself.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All she knew was that she was now a passenger, broken arm out the window, husband at the wheel. She was pickled, he was in a stew, and their relationship was simmering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Prompt by Leesa Dean, Selkirk College <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

15 minute free write using this photo and the word “stew.”* She\u2019d been hitting the sauce quite a bit recently.  Such a cute phrase for an unmanageable addiction to her beverage of choice \u2013 vodka.  It wasn\u2019t that she loved vodka all that much. But she loved getting sauced, and she loved the fact that vodka mixed with almost anything. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabetholdham.com\/wpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}