{"id":360,"date":"2023-07-28T21:05:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T21:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/?p=360"},"modified":"2023-07-28T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T21:06:00","slug":"crying-in-h-mart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/reads\/crying-in-h-mart\/","title":{"rendered":"Crying in H Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Excerpts from the book of\u00a0<em>Michelle Zauner<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Left with her in the woods, <mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\">I was overwhelmed by her time and attention, a devotion that I learned could both be an auspicious privilege and have smothering consequences.<\/mark> My mother was a homemaker. Making a home had been her livelihood since I was born, and while she was vigilant and protective, she wasn\u2019t what you would call coddling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>It was hard to decipher what he was reading aloud. From what I gathered it was a list of ten commitments, but there were so many words I had never heard before, I couldn\u2019t help but let out a laugh when, nearing the end, he intoned \u201c<mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\">what procellous awesomeness does not in you abound<\/mark>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I picked what I thought to be the most tasteful, a bronze headstone with ivy embossed along the edges. On it we arranged to record her name, birth and death days, and lovely mother, wife, and best friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lovely was an adjective my mother adored. She\u2019d told me once if pressed to describe me in a single word, lovely would be the one she\u2019d choose. She felt it encompassed an ideal beauty and ardor. It felt a fitting epitaph. To be a loving mother was to be known for a service, but to be a lovely mother was to possess a charm all your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We took her remains to the gravesite. The procession was private, just two cars full of the family staying with us. Her plot was under a tree nestled high on the cemetery\u2019s sloping hill. I looked down at the headstone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\">\u201cDad, it says \u2018loving\u2026\u2019\u2009\u201d I whispered.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from the book of\u00a0Michelle Zauner Left with her in the woods, I was overwhelmed by her time and attention, a devotion that I learned could both be an auspicious privilege and have smothering consequences. My mother was a homemaker. Making a home had been her livelihood since I was born, and while she was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reads"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["tl","en","nl"],"languages":{"tl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"nl":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}