{"id":623,"date":"2016-12-31T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectaclstg.wpengine.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:02:28","slug":"when-my-grandma-was-six-having-lived-through-the-depression-by-maddie-pospisil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;When my grandma was six, having lived through the Depression&#8221; by Maddie Pospisil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>When my grandma was six, having lived through the Depression,<\/h4>\n<pre><p style=\"font-family:Georgia\" \"font-size:11px\" \"font-weight:400\">the Winter Olympics were held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a small town in Bavaria. Relatives of mine\u2014of hers\u2014lived there, generations ago. I visited a few years back, walked around the abandoned Ski Stadium. On one of the entrances was a towering sculpture of a woman holding an eagle. Haven\u2019t you seen that before? In real life, with her wearing leather gloves and the spectators looking afraid and cheering. In real life, as we pass each other on the street. When the rain started it was the kind of unifying event in a room of strangers where at least five people said \u201cIs that the rain?\u201d Then we all looked out the window, and some of us widened our eyes and turned our mouths down a bit at each other. A dark-eyed man began to tell me a story. The rain was loud, or I was thinking about talons digging into my arm, but I didn\u2019t listen to what he said. \u201cWhat a box to put yourself in,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat a hill to die on,\u201d I said.<\/p><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maddie Pospisil is from Omaha, Nebraska, but currently spends most of her time in Kansas, where she studies and creates poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Winter Olympics were held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a small town in Bavaria. Relatives of mine\u2014of hers\u2014lived there, generations ago . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}