{"id":1109,"date":"2026-11-14T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T23:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2026-11-14T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T23:54:07","slug":"dentures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":"Dentures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning out the stuff she left forever<br \/>\nI came across four plastic containers<br \/>\nwith her old dentures in them.<br \/>\nI threw them out, thinking<br \/>\nshe would never need them now.<br \/>\nBut something stopped me<br \/>\nand I fished them out of the garbage bin.<\/p>\n<p>She kept her old dentures.<br \/>\nThat suggests that she stored memories in them.<br \/>\nDentures are so personal, so intimate&#8230;<br \/>\nmaybe they really are holders of memories.<br \/>\nThe fact that they are her memories, not mine,<br \/>\nmakes them more to me.<br \/>\nI want her to remember<br \/>\nmore than to be remembered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleaning out the stuff she left forever I came across four plastic containers with her old dentures in them. I threw them out, thinking she would never need them now. But something stopped me and I fished them out of the garbage bin. She kept her old dentures. That suggests<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=1109\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-occasional","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}