{"id":10612,"date":"2015-03-06T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=10612"},"modified":"2016-04-20T12:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T18:43:48","slug":"bread-making-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/bread-making-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread Baking Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1-2009-07-08-Creations-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10613\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1-2009-07-08-Creations-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1-2009-07-08-Creations-001.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1-2009-07-08-Creations-001-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1-2009-07-08-Creations-001-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was 2009. I was feeling blue and I was feeling put upon. Church was a challenge and I didn&#8217;t feel understood or nourished by the people I was working with there. I was weary of the political commentary I heard in the halls and from comments in classes. I was grumpy, so I decided to fix it with bread.<\/p>\n<p>I baked bread for several days and delivered the loaves to people in my town. The recipients were a mixture of people I loved and people I needed to learn to love. After the first delivery, I\u00a0was a believer in the bread-baking cure for social maladies.<\/p>\n<p>People reacted in strongly positive ways to receiving a loaf of warm, homemade bread. They would tell their friends; they would announce it in Sunday school that they loved my bread; and one night at a church auction, my offer to bake bread sold for over $100 for our cause. More important, people saw\u00a0a loaf of bread as an act of love. It was a bridge to better friendship. I exchanged some of my pride and harsh judgments for a little effort in the kitchen and a new reputation for generosity.<\/p>\n<p>Baking bread was one of the tools that helped me to finally accept living in Sahuarita, Arizona and enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 2009. I was feeling blue and I was feeling put upon. Church was a challenge and I didn&#8217;t feel understood or nourished by the people I was working with there. I was weary of the political commentary I heard in the halls and from comments in classes. I was grumpy, so I decided &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/bread-making-cure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bread Baking Cure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angies-memoir-project","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10612"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10625,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612\/revisions\/10625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}