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The Button Tin<\/p>\n
Memories of the cracker tin<\/em><\/p>\n My Mother kept her buttons in<\/em><\/p>\n Such treasures beautiful and bright<\/em><\/p>\n That brought my childish heart delight<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I don’t know where the time has gone<\/em><\/p>\n My Mother’s race is nearly run<\/em><\/p>\n The buttons now seem so passe<\/em><\/p>\n Who’d want to use them anyway?<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Red buttons, blue and green and white<\/em><\/p>\n Are seldom ever brought to light.<\/em><\/p>\n But I can still remember when<\/em><\/p>\n I loved my Mother’s button tin.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n -Jeanne Hoadley<\/p>\n I borrowed my Mother’s button tin some time ago with the intent of photographing it’s contents. She never asked for it back so I thought I might just keep it since she doesn’t sew anymore. The weather finally drove me to find something inside to photograph so I finally opened the button tin and found the buttons not nearly as intriguing as I remembered them. But I went ahead and photographed them and then I spent quite a bit of time working it into an art piece. Then I went looking for a poem and could find nothing suitable. I couldn’t quite fit what I had to say into a Haiku so I had to write a full blown poem. Not that great I know and how gauche to actually rhyme the lines. But I like it. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Button Tin Memories of the cracker tin My Mother kept her buttons in Such treasures beautiful and bright That brought my childish heart delight I don’t know where the time has gone My Mother’s race is nearly run The buttons now seem so passe Who’d want to use them anyway? Red buttons, … Continue reading Day 62 – Buttons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-autumn","category-still-life"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}