{"id":20681,"date":"2026-01-05T01:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/?p=20681"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:16:42","slug":"for-years-i-thought-of-the-buttered-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/05\/for-years-i-thought-of-the-buttered-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"For years I thought of the buttered bread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1040007-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1040007-1.jpg\" alt=\"I might have needed to place into your palm,\" class=\"wp-image-20682\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I might have needed to place into your palm,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5263.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5263.jpg\" alt=\"the different ways to say \u201cred\u201d so you wouldn\u2019t\" class=\"wp-image-20683\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">the different ways to say \u201cred\u201d so you wouldn\u2019t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5265.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5265.jpg\" alt=\"miss an inch of autumn, a slice of velvet cake.\" class=\"wp-image-20684\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">miss an inch of autumn, a slice of velvet cake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5285.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5285.jpg\" alt=\"The darkness that happened to you once, briefly,\" class=\"wp-image-20685\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The darkness that happened to you once, briefly,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5303.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5303.jpg\" alt=\"it happened to me for years. That blackness\u2014\" class=\"wp-image-20686\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">it happened to me for years. That blackness\u2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5307.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5307.jpg\" alt=\"you dropped it\u2014I picked it up for you, I polished it,\" class=\"wp-image-20687\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">you dropped it\u2014I picked it up for you, I polished it,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5308.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5308.jpg\" alt=\"tucked it like a passport into my nightstand drawer. \u2014Todd Dillard\" class=\"wp-image-20688\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">tucked it like a passport into my nightstand drawer.<br\/><em>\u2014Todd Dillard<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF5285.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20689,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681\/revisions\/20689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}